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SUBMITTER: Landerso R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7756892 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Landersø Rasmus R Fallesen Peter P
Health economics 20201102 1
Most OECD countries have downsized treatment capacity at psychiatric hospitals substantially. We investigate consequences of these reductions by studying how the decision whether to admit individuals in mental distress to a psychiatric hospital affects their subsequent crime, treatment trajectories, and labor market outcomes. To circumvent nonrandom selection into admission, we use a proxy of occupancy rates prior to a patient's first contact with a psychiatric hospital as an instrument. We find ...[more]