Helping under-resourced hospitals: Evidence from a medical poverty alleviation program

Using a staggered difference-in-differences design with matching, this study evaluates China's medical poverty alleviation program at an underresourced hospital. The program reduces service time and seven-day revisits, with stronger gains for less experienced physicians, assistant-experienced physicians, larger expert–physician experience gaps, and technologically complex departments.

Qiang Li, Meng Li, Wei Gu, Zhi Cao (Forthcoming). Helping under-resourced hospitals: Evidence from a medical poverty alleviation program. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.