NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
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NBER Papers in Health Care

NBER Papers in Health Care

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2009
w15517 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom
Salal Humair

A Mathematical Model for Estimating the Number of Health Workers Required for Universal Antiretroviral Treatment

w15485 David O. Meltzer
Zhuo Chen

The Impact of Minimum Wage Rates on Body Weight in the United States

w15456 Grant Miller
Diana M. Pinto
Marcos Vera-Hernández

High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence from Colombia’s Régimen Subsidiado

w15434 Leemore Dafny
Mark Duggan
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan

Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

w15383 Darius N. Lakdawalla
Seth A. Seabury

The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability

w15371 Ronen Avraham
Leemore S. Dafny
Max M. Schanzenbach

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

w15364 Beomsoo Kim
Christopher J. Ruhm

Inheritances, Health and Death

w15330 Darius Lakdawalla
Wesley Yin

Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Drug Prices in Medicare Part D

w15326 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
Kimberly Quaid
E. Ray Dorsey

Genetic Adverse Selection: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease

w15316 David M. Cutler
Ellen Meara
Seth Richards

Induced Innovation and Social Inequality: Evidence from Infant Medical Care

w15314 Richard G. Frank
Ellen Meara

The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

w15311 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

w15310 William N. Evans
Timothy J. Moore

Liquidity, Activity, Mortality

w15309 William N. Evans
Craig L. Garthwaite

Estimating Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Medical Treatment Intensity

w15271 Angus S. Deaton
Aging, religion, and health

w15245 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.

w15241 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Jonathan Levin

Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets

w15214 David M. Cutler
Robert S. Huckman
Jonathan T. Kolstad

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

w15213 Samuel H. Preston
Jessica Y. Ho

Low Life Expectancy in the United States: Is the Health Care System at Fault?

w15203 Yu-Chu Shen
Jeremy Arkes
Boon Wah Kwan
Lai Yee Tan
Thomas V. Williams

The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population

w15174 Claudio Lucarelli
Sean Nicholson

A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs

w15164 David M. Cutler
Bryan Lincoln
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans

w15163 Jay Bhattacharya
Kate Bundorf
Noemi Pace
Neeraj Sood

Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?

w15146 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Krishna B. Kumar
Neeraj Sood

Federal Life Sciences Funding and University R&D

w15140 Marc T. Law
Zeynep K. Hansen

Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis

w15134 Yaa Akosa Antwi
Martin Gaynor
William B. Vogt

A Bargain at Twice the Price? California Hospital Prices in the New Millennium

w15122 Partha Deb
William T. Gallo
Padmaja Ayyagari
Jason M. Fletcher
Jody L. Sindelar

Job Loss: Eat, drink and try to be merry?

w15114 Phillip B. Levine
Robin McKnight
Samantha Heep

Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood

w15090 Angus S. Deaton
Raksha Arora

Life at the top: the benefits of height

w15089 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Kimberly V. Smith

Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs

w15085 Amanda E. Kowalski
Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15068 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Quality of Medical Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Longevity Growth

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w15041 Seema Jayachandran
Ilyana Kuziemko

Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

w15032 Anupam Jena
Tomas Philipson

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

w15005 Richard V. Burkhauser
John Cawley
Maximilian D. Schmeiser

Differences in the U.S. Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Based on Body Mass Index and Skinfold Thickness

w15000 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys

w14995 Jeffrey E. Harris
Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi

Impact of "Seguro Popular" on Prenatal Visits in Mexico, 2002-2005: Latent Class Model of Count Data with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w14988 Neeraj Kaushal
Qin Gao

Food Stamp Program and Consumption Choices

w14987 John Cawley
Joshua A. Price

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss

w14964 Steven J. Atlas
Jonathan S. Skinner

Education and the Prevalence of Pain

w14886 Kathleen J. Mullen
Richard G. Frank
Meredith B. Rosenthal

Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers

w14865 Jonathan Skinner
Douglas Staiger

Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

w14839 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Alan C. Monheit

Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and the Promise of Health Insurance Reform

w14811 Gabriel Aranovich
Jay Bhattacharya
Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy

Coping with Chronic Disease? Chronic Disease and Disability in Elderly American Population 1982-1999

w14797 Albert Link
Christopher Ruhm

Public Knowledge, Private Knowledge: The Intellectual Capital of Entrepreneurs

w14790 Kanaka D. Shetty
Thomas DeLeire
Chapin White
Jayanta Bhattacharya

Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14759 Jason T. Abaluck
Jonathan Gruber

Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

w14744 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

w14695 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development

w14692 Helen Levy
David Weir

Take-Up of Medicare Part D: Results from the Health and Retirement Study

w14690 Angus S. Deaton
Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development

w14679 Nicole Maestas
Mathis Schroeder
Dana Goldman

Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap

w14671 Phillip B. Levine
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes

w14637 Angus Deaton
Jane Fortson
Robert Tortora

Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa

w14634 Guy David
Sara Markowitz
Seth Richards

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation


2008
w14624 Kevin Milligan
Mark Stabile

Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

w14619 Dana Goldman
John A. Romley

Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand

w14591 Dhaval M. Dave
Sandra Decker
Robert Kaestner
Kosali I. Simon

Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

w14572 Leemore Dafny
Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?

w14568 Sherry A. Glied
Ashwin Prabhu
Norman H. Edelman

The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

w14567 Vincenzo Atella
Jay Bhattacharya
Lorenzo Carbonari

Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation: Evidence from US and Italy

w14545 Sherry A. Glied
Mandates and the Affordability of Health Care

w14522 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Amanda E. Kowalski
Heidi Williams

Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

w14512 Kohei Enami
John Mullahy

Tobit at Fifty: A Brief History of Tobin's Remarkable Estimator, of Related Empirical Methods, and of Limited Dependent Variable Econometrics in Health Economics

w14482 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile
Phongsack Manivong
Leslie L. Roos

Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

w14455 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark E. Votruba

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

w14435 Tracy A. Falba
William T. Gallo
Jody L. Sindelar

Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

w14414 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Mark R. Cullen

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

w14413 Anirban Basu
Wesley Yin
G. Caleb Alexander

The impact of Medicare Part D on Medicare-Medicaid Dual-eligible Beneficiaries' Prescription Utilization and Expenditures

w14403 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance

w14361 Robert W. Fogel
Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040

w14350 Hai Fang
Nolan H. Miller
John A. Rizzo
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Demanding Customers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care

w14337 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert Van Landeghem

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

w14333 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Tom Vogl

Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms

w14330 Jeffrey Liebman
Richard Zeckhauser

Simple Humans, Complex Insurance, Subtle Subsidies

w14326 Jonathan D. Ketcham
Kosali Simon

Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization

w14309 John F. Cogan
R. Glenn Hubbard
Daniel P. Kessler

The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance

w14296 Claudio Lucarelli
Jeffrey Prince
Kosali Simon

Measuring Welfare and the Effects of Regulation in a Government-Created Market: The Case of Medicare Part D Plans

w14257 Alan M. Garber
Jonathan Skinner

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

w14256 Yu-Chu Shen
Karen Eggleston

The Effect of Soft Budget Constraints on Access and Quality in Hospital Care

w14212 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark Votruba

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

w14174 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Steven M. Ewer
Todd H. Wagner

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

w14173 Janet Currie
Sandra Decker
Wanchuan Lin

Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?

w14159 James B. Rebitzer
Mari Rege
Christopher Shepard

Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care

w14157 Anupam Jena
Casey Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

The Value of Life in General Equilibrium

w14153 M. Kate Bundorf
Jonathan D. Levin
Neale Mahoney

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

w14125 Ellen Meara
Meredith Rosenthal
Anna Sinaiko
Katherine Baicker

State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor?

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14096 Kristian Bolin
Anna Lindgren
Bjorn Lindgren
Petter Lundborg

Utilisation of Physician Services in the 50+ Population. The Relative Importance of Individual versus Institutional Factors in 10 European Countries

w14095 Mark Pauly
Fredric E. Blavin
Sudha Meghan

Is There a Market for Voluntary Health Insurance in Developing Countries?

w14089 Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

w14086 Anirban Basu
Daniel Polsky
Willard G. Manning

Use of Propensity Scores in Non-Linear Response Models: The Case for Health Care Expenditures

w14070 Andrew Epstein
Jonathan D. Ketcham
Sean Nicholson

Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics

w14057 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm

Bringing Science to Market: Commercializing from NIH SBIR Awards

w14041 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew J. Epstein

Effects of Regulation on Drug Launch and Pricing in Interdependent Markets

w14011 Seema Jayachandran
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires

w14009 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Gautier Duflos

Pharmaceutical innovation and the longevity of Australians: a first look

w14008 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003

w13917 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Effect of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

w13888 M. Kate Bundorf
Natalie Chun
Gopi Shah Goda
Daniel P. Kessler

Do Markets Respond to Quality Information? The Case of Fertility Clinics

w13885 Sherry A. Glied
Universal Public Health Insurance and Private Coverage: Externalities in Health Care Consumption

w13881 Sherry A. Glied
Health Care Financing, Efficiency, and Equity

w13879 Sherry Glied
Matthew Neidell

The Economic Value of Teeth

w13877 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

w13875 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Lisa M. Shickle
Nicholas Farrell

Differences in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment:Experiences of Insured and Uninsured Patients in a Safety Net Setting

w13865 Jay Bhattacharya
Adam Isen

On Inferring Demand for Health Care in the Presence of Anchoring, Acquiescence, and Selection Biases

w13863 Jay Bhattacharya
Mikko Packalen

The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

w13862 Jay Bhattacharya
Mikko Packalen

Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

w13857 Margaret E. Blume-Kohout
Neeraj Sood

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical R&D

w13847 Jason M. Fletcher
Barbara L. Wolfe

Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects

w13817 Richard Frank
Karine Lamiraud

Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance

w13776 Emma Hall
Carol Propper
John Van Reenen

Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance

w13775 Yu-Chu Shen
Vivian Wu
Glenn Melnick

The Changing Effect of HMO Market Structure: An Analysis of Penetration, Concentration, and Ownership Between 1994-2005

w13767 John F. Cogan
R. Glenn Hubbard
Daniel P. Kessler

The Effect of Tax Preferences on Health Spending

w13758 Jonathan Gruber
Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.

w13747 Michael Chernew
Philip DeCicca
Robert Town

Managed Care and Medical Expenditures of Medicare Beneficiaries

w13746 David M. Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Kathleen McGarry

Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

w13730 John A. Romley
Dana Goldman

How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach


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