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Robert Town

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Statistics

Publications

56

Citations

4.2K

H-Index

29

Active since

1992

Affiliations

University of Minnesota(Current)

University of Pennsylvania

National Bureau of Economic Research

Minnesota Department of Health

University of California, Irvine

Robert Town is an author at University of Minnesota specializing in health policy, public health, and health economics.

Top concepts

Health PolicyPublic HealthHealth EconomicsHealth Services ResearchHealth CoverageEconomicsBusinessHealth Insurance ReformHealth Services CompetitionHealthcare Delivery

Publications per year

1992–2023

55

Publications

56

Mergers When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Aviv Nevo, Robert Town · American Economic Review · 2015 · 397 citations

Industrial Organization, Hospital Mergers, Managed Care +19

National health care costs of peripheral arterial disease in the Medicare population

Alan T. Hirsch, Lacey Hartman, Robert Town et al. · Vascular Medicine · 2008 · 344 citations

The Industrial Organization of Health-Care Markets

Martin Gaynor, Kate Ho, Robert Town · Journal of Economic Literature · 2015 · 328 citations

Health Administration, Health Insurance Design, Financial Protection +23

Are All the Good Men Married? Uncovering the Sources of the Marital Wage Premium

Kate Antonovics, Robert Town · American Economic Review · 2004 · 304 citations

Marital Wage Premium, Social Sciences, Gender Studies +16

Competition, Payers, and Hospital Quality<sup>1</sup>

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Robert Town · Health Services Research · 2003 · 248 citations · Full text

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