Peer and network effects in medical innovation: the case of laparoscopic surgery in the English NHS
Eliana Barrenho,
Marisa Miraldo,
Carol Propper and
Christiern Rose
Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers from HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York
Abstract:
This paper examines the effect of peers and networks on the uptake of innovation in surgery.Using a rich matched patient-surgeon data set covering all relevant surgeons, we construct a wide set of time varying measures of peer behaviour and network effects. Our estimates allow for simultaneity bias and treatment of the network as partially unknown. The findings show the importance of multiple channels in affecting the diffusion of innovative behaviour across individual surgeons.
Keywords: innovation; peer effects; unknown networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07
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