 The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitalsCarol Propper, Nicholas Bloom, S Seiler and John van Reenen Working Papers from Imperial College, London, Imperial College Business School Abstract: © The Author 2014.We analyse the causal impact of competition on managerial quality and hospital performance. To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyse the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controlled by the central government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the governing party is expecting a tight election race ( marginals ) is rare due to the fear of electoral defeat, we can use political marginality as an instrumental variable for the number of hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition results in higher management quality, measured using a new survey tool, and improved hospital performance. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases survival rates from emergency heart attacks by 9.7%. We confirm the robustness of our IV strategy to hidden policies that could be used in marginal districts to improve hospital management and to changes in capacity that may follow from hospital closure. Date: 2013-01-01 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imp:wpaper:5915 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Imperial College, London, Imperial College Business School Contact information at EDIRC. |
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