Matthew Skellern

Biography

Matthew Skellern is a Fellow in Health Economics in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics in 2015, for a Dissertation on the economics of public services provision, with a particular focus on health care provision within the English NHS. Current areas of research include the effects of targets regimes, patient choice of hospital and GP surgery, and independent sector providers within the English NHS. Matthew has a particular interest in using new indicators of hospital quality, such as Patient Reported Outcome Measures, to measure the effect of market-based reforms to health care systems.

Research

• Does Competition from Private Surgical Centres Improve Public Hospitals’ Performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service
• The hospital as a multi-product firm: Measuring the effect of hospital competition on quality using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
• Does competition between hospitals improve clinical quality? A review of evidence from two eras of competition in the English NHS

Current Areas of Research:

• Do altruistic hospitals and profit-maximising hospitals respond differently to competition? 

• Mission conflict in international development assistance and the charitable sector. 

• Epidemiology and econometrics: a study of contrasting perspectives on causation, with reference to the literature on hospital competition and quality in the English NHS.