COEP Replication Package for "The Effect of Expansion of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice on Early Covid-19 Deaths"

Public safety is often used as an argument against expanding scope of practice (SOP)<br>for nurse practitioners, despite the benefit of filling unmet health care demand. As a<br>response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, some states expanded SOP for nurse practitioners<br>to accommodate the unprecedented healthcare challenge. We analyze the effect of the<br>expansion of SOP on daily Covid-19-related mortality, exploiting the quasi-random<br>state policy changes at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Checking different<br>model specifications, we do not find evidence that expanding SOP for nurse practitioners<br>during the pandemic causes adverse effects on patients measured by Covid-19 mortality