Health Effects of Ambulance Desert

Tejendra Pratap Singh and Olanrewaju Yusuff

No w23ap_v1, OSF Preprints from Center for Open Science

Abstract: Using detailed county-level data on ambulance service establishments, we show that loss of access to ambulance services reduces deaths due to external causes. The decline in deaths is driven by assaults and accidental injury deaths. The reduced mortality is concentrated in whites without a college degree. Our results are robust to a battery of empirical checks including accounting for staggered treatment adoption and bundling of hospital closure along with ambulance services loss.

Date: 2024-10-18
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