Overview
This is the guide for Module 1, which covers hospital objective functions and responses to financial incentives.
Learning objectives
- Synthesize the literature on hospital ownership type and its effects on healthcare outcomes
- Describe the Medicare prospective payment system
- Implement various estimators within a difference-in-differences research design
- Analyze real data on hospital ownership type, prices, and quality
Causal inference topics
- Introduction to difference-in-differences (OLS, TWFE, Event Studies)
- Staggered treatment timing and group-time ATTs
- Imputation estimators
- Synthetic DD