AEA Papers and Proceedings
ISSN 2574-0768 (Print) | ISSN 2574-0776 (Online)
Reexamining Geographic Variation in Health and Health Care
AEA Papers and Proceedings
(pp. 138–143)
Abstract
A large literature has documented widespread variation in health care spending per capita across areas of the United States without correspondingly better health outcomes. Recent work has used "mover designs" to estimate the causal impact of place on both health care spending and mortality. In this paper, we investigate whether places that increase health care spending also tend to be places that increase health. We find that they do not and discuss the implications.Citation
Finkelstein, Amy, and Matthew Gentzkow. 2026. "Reexamining Geographic Variation in Health and Health Care." AEA Papers and Proceedings 116: 138–143. DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20261072Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I12 Health Behavior
- I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
- I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination