Overview
Robert J. Town is a health economist and industrial organization researcher. He was at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management at the time of the Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003) collaboration. His research covers hospital competition, health insurance markets, and empirical methods for health economics.
Key Contributions
- Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003): Bayesian selection model for hospital quality from Medicare data; showed that selection bias drives the bulk of between-hospital mortality variation; quality is U-shaped in bed size with public hospitals worst and private teaching hospitals best. See Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003).
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