John Romley is an economist at RAND. He is an adjunct assistant professor at Occidental College and a member of the faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on the industrial organization of health-care markets, as well as legal services and liability policy.
Hospitals
Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand (with Dana Goldman), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 14619 (2008)
Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role...
What Can We Learn about Hospitals from the Revealed Preferences of Patients? (with Dana Goldman), Vox (2008)
In choosing their hospital, patients are concerned with both quality of care and amenities such...
How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach (with Dana Goldman), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 13370 (2008)
One of the most important and vexing issues in health care concerns the cost to...
Legal services
Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability? (with Boalt Hall and RAND and Bogdan Savych), Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability? (2007)
Other health care
A Systematic Review of Health Care Efficiency Measures (with Peter Hussey, Han de Vries, Margaret Wang, Susan Chen, Paul Shekelle, and Elizabeth McGlynn), Health Services Research (2009)
Objective: To review and characterize existing health care efficiency measures in order to facilitate a...
Alcohol and Environmental Justice: The Density of Liquor Stores and Bars in Urban Neighborhoods in the United States (with Deborah Cohen, Jeanne Ringel, and Roland Sturm), Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (2007)
Objective: This study had two purposes: (1) to characterize the density of liquor stores and...