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NBER Papers in Health Care


2012
w17802 Aviva Aron-Dine
Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important Is Forward Looking Behavior?

w17786 Michael Waldman
Sean Nicholson
Nodir Adilov

Positive and Negative Mental Health Consequences of Early Childhood Television Watching

w17733 Aaron J. Sojourner
Robert J. Town
David C. Grabowski
Michelle M. Chen

Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes

w17750 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Pharmaceutical Innovation on the Functional Limitations of Elderly Americans Evidence from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey

w17748 Martin B. Hackmann
Jonathan T. Kolstad
Amanda E. Kowalski

Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

w17738 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons


2011
w17689 Mariacristina De Nardi
Eric French
John Bailey Jones
Angshuman Gooptu

Medicaid and the Elderly

w17657 Ann Huff Stevens
Douglas L. Miller
Marianne E. Page
Mateusz Filipski

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality

w17643 Patrick Bajari
Han Hong
Minjung Park
Robert Town

Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Endogenous Forcing Variable and an Application to Contracting in Health Care

w17629 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
E. Ray Dorsey

Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease

w17608 Martin Gaynor
Mauro Laudicella
Carol Propper

Can Governments Do It Better? Merger Mania and Hospital Outcomes in the English NHS

w17600 John Cawley
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

w17588 John Mullahy
Marginal Effects in Multivariate Probit and Kindred Discrete and Count Outcome Models, with Applications in Health Economics

w17578 Christopher J. Ruhm
Alison Snow Jones
William C. Kerr
Thomas K. Greenfield
Joseph V. Terza
Ravi S. Pandian
Kerry Anne McGeary

What U.S. Data Should be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

w17535 James B. Rebitzer
Mark E. Votruba

Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

w17528 Rena M. Conti
Haiden A. Huskamp
Ernst R. Berndt

The Effect of FDA Advisories on Branded Pharmaceutical Firms' Valuations and Promotion Efforts

w17483 Charles J. Courtemanche
Garth Heutel
Patrick McAlvanah

Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity

w17474 Ann P. Bartel
Ciaran S. Phibbs
Nancy Beaulieu
Patricia Stone

Human Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

w17459 Benjamin R. Handel
Adverse Selection and Switching Costs in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts

w17451 Jeffrey Brown
Amy Finkelstein

Insuring Long Term Care In the US

w17440 Gopi Shah Goda
John B. Shoven
Sita Nataraj Slavov

Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?

w17426 Susan Busch
Ezra Golberstein
Ellen Meara

The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital

w17419 Guy David
Evan Rawley
Daniel Polsky

Integration and Task Allocation: Evidence from Patient Care

w17414 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of Therapeutic Procedure Innovation on Hospital Patient Longevity: Evidence from Western Australia, 2000-2007

w17410 Jeffrey R. Kling
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Lee Vermeulen
Marian Wrobel

Comparison Friction: Experimental Evidence from Medicare Drug Plans

w17371 David H. Howard
Yu-Chu Shen

Comparative Effectiveness Research, COURAGE, and Technological Abandonment

w17316 Christopher Afendulis
Daniel Kessler

Vertical Integration and Optimal Reimbursement Policy

w17300 Guy David
Richard Lindrooth
Lorens A. Helmchen
Lawton R. Burns

Do Hospitals Cross Subsidize?

w17279 Richard V. Burkhauser
Sean Lyons
Kosali I. Simon

The Importance of the Meaning and Measurement of “Affordable” in the Affordable Care Act

w17244 Anneke Exterkate
Robin L. Lumsdaine

How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

w17236 Mark Duggan
Tamara Hayford

Has the Shift to Managed Care Reduced Medicaid Expenditures? Evidence from State and Local-Level Mandates

w17226 Patricia M. Danzon
Michael F. Furukawa

Cross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs. Physician-Driven Markets

w17208 Martin Gaynor
Robert J. Town

Competition in Health Care Markets

w17205 Patricia M. Danzon
Nuno S. Pereira

Vaccine Supply: Effects Of Regulation And Competition

w17198 Carrie H. Colla
William H. Dow
Arindrajit Dube

The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance

w17190 Amy Finkelstein
Sarah Taubman
Bill Wright
Mira Bernstein
Jonathan Gruber
Joseph P. Newhouse
Heidi Allen
Katherine Baicker
The Oregon Health Study Group

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

w17183 Katherine L. Milkman
John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

w17174 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew W. Mulcahy
Adrian K. Towse

Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement

w17168 Jonathan Gruber
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: How Reasonable Are the Projections?

w17164 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Kosali I. Simon

A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

w17162 Guy David
Sara Markowitz

Side Effects of Competition: the Role of Advertising and Promotion in Pharmaceutical Markets

w17160 Sara Markowitz
E. Kathleen Adams
Patricia M. Dietz
Viji Kannan
Van Tong

Smoking Policies and Birth Outcomes: Estimates From a New Era

w17148 David M. Cutler
Mary Beth Landrum

Dimensions of Health in the Elderly Population

w17125 Neeraj Sood
Peter J. Huckfeldt
David C. Grabowski
Joseph P. Newhouse
José J. Escarce

The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17070 Craig L. Garthwaite
The Doctor Might See You Now: The Supply Side Effects of Public Health Insurance Expansions

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17046 Peter J. Huckfeldt
Christopher R. Knittel

Pharmaceutical Use Following Generic Entry: Paying Less and Buying Less

w17011 Anup Malani
Tomas J. Philipson

Can Medical Progress be Sustained? Implications of the Link Between Development and Output Markets

w16990 Amitabh Chandra
Anupam B. Jena
Jonathan S. Skinner

The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research

w16978 Alan B. Krueger
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Demand for Health Insurance Among Uninsured Americans: Results of a Survey Experiment and Implications for Policy

w16977 Jason Brown
Mark Duggan
Ilyana Kuziemko
William Woolston

How does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program

w16969 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Stephen P. Ryan
Paul Schrimpf
Mark R. Cullen

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

w16953 Amitabh Chandra
Jonathan S. Skinner

Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care

w16937 Jonathan R. Clark
Robert Huckman

Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

w16927 Resul Cesur
Joseph J. Sabia
Erdal Tekin

The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health

w16926 Jill R. Horwitz
Austin Nichols

Rural Hospital Ownership: Medical Service Provision, Market Mix, and Spillover Effects

w16915 Sara Markowitz
Alison Evans Cuellar
Ryan M. Conrad
Michael Grossman

The Effects of Alcohol Policies in Reducing Entry Rates and Time Spent in Foster Care

w16909 Jinhu Li
Jeremiah Hurley
Philip DeCicca
Gioia Buckley

Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w16900 Anirban Basu
Economics of Individualization in Comparative Effectiveness Research and a Basis for a Patient-Centered Health Care

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16859 Vivian Y. Wu
Yu-Chu Shen

The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes

w16857 Dalton Conley
Jason Alan Thompson

Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth: Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects

w16844 Janet Currie
Michael Greenstone
Enrico Moretti

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health

w16823 Anna A. Levine Taub
Anton Kolotilin
Robert S. Gibbons
Ernst R. Berndt

The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics

w16794 G. Brant Morefield
David C. Ribar
Christopher J. Ruhm

Occupational Status and Health Transitions

w16772 Katherine Baicker
Jonathan S. Skinner

Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates

w16738 Li Gan
Feng Huang
Adalbert Mayer

A Simple Test of Private Information in the Insurance Markets with Heterogeneous Insurance Demand

w16723 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein

Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

w16720 Itai Ashlagi
Alvin E. Roth

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

w16690 Yu-Chu Shen
Renee Y. Hsia

Does Decreased Access to Emergency Departments Affect Patient Outcomes? Analysis of AMI Population 1996-2005

w16687 Philip Babcock
Kelly Bedard
Gary Charness
John Hartman
Heather Royer

Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Team Incentives

w16669 Marianne P. Bitler
Christopher S. Carpenter

Insurance Mandates and Mammography

w16656 Martin Gaynor
Samuel A. Kleiner
William B. Vogt

A Structural Approach to Market Definition With an Application to the Hospital Industry


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