The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas, Propper, Carol, Seiler, Stephan and Van Reenen, John ORCID: 0000-0001-9153-2907 (2015) The impact of competition on management quality: evidence from public hospitals. Review of Economic Studies, 82 (2). pp. 457-489. ISSN 0034-6527

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://academic.oup.com/restud
Additional Information:	© 2015 Oxford University Press
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2018 15:13
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 01:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88188

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