Job Market Paper
The Long and Short of It: Ambulance Response Times and Mortality
with Damian Clarke
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between ambulance response times and mortality in the United Kingdom from 2018-2023. Using novel postcode district level data which we have compiled from nearly all ambulance trusts in the country, we document significant deterioration in emergency response performance across all call categories. Fixed effects models reveal that each minute of delay for life-threatening emergencies corresponds to 0.435 additional deaths per 100,000 population, with particularly strong effects in death registered in care homes (0.175) and residential homes (0.117). Work in progress will seek to extend this paper to consider instrumental variable estimates based on granular data measuring local traffic conditions.
Publications
A Quantitative Review of Matching Papers in Economics: Evolution, Diversity, and Gender
with Climent Quintana-Domeque and Alejandro Robinson-Cortés
Forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Replication package available on Harvard Dataverse.
Work in Progress
Colliery Gender Income Gap and Missing Women
Marriage Matching in Education and Ethnicity
Bidimensional Matching in Marriage and Stigma: Education and Smoking Among Koreans