Hospital Closures

This repo maintains the supporting documentation and supplementary material for our analysis of the effects of critical access hospital designation on hospital closures and mergers.

External Project Links

• OneDrive folder to share data inputs from other repositories. See data for more information on data inputs for this project.
• Dropbox folder to share data outputs, papers, etc, including information on the Critical Access Hospital legislative history available here
• Literature review on hospital closures
• Overleaf Manuscript for the paper

Navigating the Repo

• Background: Contains background information on the critical access hospital program and the data used in the analysis. This file is not yet under git version control.
• Data: Contains information the data used in the analysis and relevant code
• Analysis: Contains information on the analysis and relevant code

Research Team

Ian McCarthy Associate Professor • Department of Economics • Emory University
Research Associate • National Bureau of Economic Research
ianmccarthyecon.com • \@ianhealthecon

Mayra Pineda-Torres Assistant Professor • Department of Economics • Georgia Tech
mayrapinedatorres.com

Katie Leinenbach PhD Student • Department of Economics • Emory University
katieleinenbach.com • \@katieleinenbach