NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Health Care Archive

NBER Papers in Health Care


2007
w13649 Ashlesha Datar
Arkadipta Ghosh
Neeraj Sood

Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in Infancy: Evidence from Rural India

w13627 Florian Heiss
Daniel McFadden
Joachim Winter

Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans

w13668 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

Does Medicare Save Lives?

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13585 Jonathan Gruber
David Rodriguez

How Much Uncompensated Care do Doctors Provide?

w13578 Richard V. Burkhauser
Kosali I. Simon

Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?

w13561 Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal
Tom Vogl

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13530 Alvin E. Roth
What Have We Learned From Market Design?

w13528 Katherine Baicker
Helen Levy

Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment

w13519 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Impact of Research Grant Funding on Scientific Productivity

w13501 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable

w13495 Anne Case
Diana Lee
Christina Paxson

The Income Gradient in Children's Health: A Comment on Currie, Shields and Wheatley Price

w13493 Jonathan C. Javitt
James B. Rebitzer
Lonny Reisman

Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13478 David M. Cutler
The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology

w13477 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser

Social Interactions and Smoking

w13461 Alex Y. Chen
José Escarce

Family Structure and the Treatment of Childhood Asthma

w13460 Carole Roan Gresenz
Jeannette Rogowski
José J. Escarce

Social Networks and Access to Health Care Among Mexican-Americans

w13445 Richard G. Frank
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Custom Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments; Behavioral Propensities in Physician's Choices

w13429 June E. O'Neill
Dave M. O'Neill

Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada vs. the U.S.

w13407 Pinka Chatterji
Ellen Meara

Consequences of Eliminating Federal Disability Benefits for Substance Abusers

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13374 Christopher Carpenter
Carlos Dobkin

The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age

w13371 Hanming Fang
Alessandro Gavazza

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence

w13358 Baoping Shang
Dana P. Goldman

Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending

w13333 Gary Becker
Kevin Murphy
Tomas Philipson

The Value of Life Near its End and Terminal Care

w13312 Charles F. Manski
Adaptive Minimax-Regret Treatment Choice, With Application To Drug Approval

w13304 Mary Beth Landrum
Kate A. Stewart
David M. Cutler

Clinical Pathways to Disability

w13301 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home

w13289 Charles L. Baum II
Christopher J. Ruhm

Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth

w13261 Thomas Buchmueller
Anthony Lo Sasso
Kathleen Wong

How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?

w13252 Janet Currie
Eric Hanushek
E. Megan Kahn
Matthew Neidell
Steven Rivkin

Does Pollution Increase School Absences?

w13247 Nava Ashraf
James Berry
Jesse M. Shapiro

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

w13246 Jill R. Horwitz
Austin Nichols

What Do Nonprofits Maximize? Nonprofit Hospital Service Provision and Market Ownership Mix

w13228 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Paul Schrimpf

The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

w13217 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13181 Christopher J. Ruhm
Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the United States

w13137 Carole Roan Gresenz
Jeannette Rogowski
José J. Escarce

Individuals' Use of Care While Uninsured: Effects of Time Since Episode Inception and Episode Length

w13125 Avi Dor
Mark V. Pauly
Margaret A. Eichleay
Philip J. Held

End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing

w13105 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
Steven Laufer
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

w13078 Michael C. Christensen
Dahlia Remler

Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care: Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?

w13044 Mark V. Pauly
Fredric E. Blavin

Value Based Cost Sharing Meets the Theory of Moral Hazard: Medical Effectiveness in Insurance Benefits Design

w13034 Jennifer Hunt
Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

w13013 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Allison B. Rosen

Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

w12987 Alix Peterson Zwane
Michael Kremer

What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

w12981 Jonathan Skinner
Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?

w12972 Amitabh Chandra
Jonathan Gruber
Robin McKnight

Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

w12954 Sara Bleich
David Cutler
Christopher Murray
Alyce Adams

Why Is The Developed World Obese?

w12907 Thomas DeLeire
Leonard M. Lopoo
Kosali I. Simon

Medicaid Expansions and Fertility in the United States

w12905 James Smith
Diabetes and the Rise of the SES Health Gradient

w12903 Adeline Delavande
Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood

Criminal Prosecution and HIV-related Risky Behavior

w12859 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

w12858 Jonathan Gruber
Kosali Simon

Crowd-Out Ten Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded Out Private Health Insurance?

w12820 M. Kate Bundorf
Melinda Henne
Laurence Baker

Mandated Health Insurance Benefits and the Utilization and Outcomes of Infertility Treatments


2006
w12803 Allan Begosh
John Goldsmith
Ed Hass
Randall W. Lutter
Clark Nardinelli
John A. Vernon

Black Box Warnings and Drug Safety: Examining the Determinants and Timing of FDA Warning Labels

w12764 Dhaval Dave
Robert Kaestner

Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicare

w12758 Martin Gaynor
Jian Li
William B. Vogt

Is Drug Coverage a Free Lunch? Cross-Price Elasticities and the Design of Prescription Drug Benefits

w12754 Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

w12743 Emily Oster
Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India

w12735 Angus Deaton
Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies

w12733 John F. Cogan
R. Glenn Hubbard
Daniel P. Kessler

Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending and Federal Revenues

w12702 Alvin E. Roth
Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

w12689 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Harsha Thirumurthy
Markus Goldstein

AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

w12688 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

w12681 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract

w12674 James Banks
Michael Marmot
Zoe Oldfield
James P. Smith

The SES Health Gradient on Both Sides of the Atlantic

w12643 Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire
Sharon-Lise Normand

Cost-Offsets of New Medications for Treatment of Schizophrenia

w12642 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Welfare Reform and Indirect Impacts on Health

w12636 Patricia E. Beeson
Werner Troesken

When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal

w12632 Michael Waldman
Sean Nicholson
Nodir Adilov

Does Television Cause Autism?

w12623 Christopher C. Afendulis
Daniel P. Kessler

Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care

w12619 Omar Galarraga
David S. Salkever
Judith A. Cook
Stephen J. Gange

An Instrumental Variable Evaluation of Antidepressant Use on Employment Among HIV-Infected Women Using Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: 1996-2004

w12595 Kosali I. Simon
Claudio Lucarelli

What Drove First Year Premiums in Stand-Alone Medicare Drug Plans?

w12577 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson
Y. Richard Wang

Intellectual Property and Marketing

w12556 Neeraj Sood
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Jose J. Escarce

Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System

w12539 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Importation and Innovation

w12536 Jeffrey R. Brown
Norma B. Coe
Amy Finkelstein

Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

w12528 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Do Female Physicians Capture Their Scarcity Value? The Case of OB/GYNs

w12511 Daniel Polsky
Jalpa A. Doshi
Jose Escarce
Willard Manning
Susan M. Paddock
Liyi Cen
Jeannette Rogowski

The Health Effects of Medicare for the Near-Elderly Uninsured

w12510 John Cawley
Contingent Valuation Analysis of Willingness to Pay To Reduce Childhood Obesity

w12504 Bradley Herring
Mark V. Pauly

The Effect of State Community Rating Regulations on Premiums and Coverage in the Individual Health Insurance Market

w12485 Adam Ashcraft
Kevin Lang

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

w12480 Ellen Meara
Richard Frank

Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

w12478 Janet Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes

w12466 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

w12445 Patrick Bajari
Han Hong
Ahmed Khwaja

Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Health Expenditures: A Semiparametric Analysis

w12438 Leemore Dafny
David Dranove

Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Controls

w12430 Jayanta Bhattacharya
William B. Vogt

Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

w12429 Alan C. Monheit
Jessica Primoff Vistnes

Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Preferences for Coverage, Worker Sorting, and Insurance Take Up

w12406 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Impact of Increased Utilization of HIV Drugs on Longevity and Medical Expenditures: An Assessment Based on Aggregate U.S. Time-Series Data

w12391 Courtney Coile
Kevin Milligan

How Household Portfolios Evolve After Retirement: The Effect of Aging and Health Shocks

w12377 David S. Salkever
Stephen Johnston
Mustafa C. Karakus
Nicholas Ialongo
Eric Slade

Using Target Efficiency to Select Program Participants and Risk-Factor Models: An Application to Child Mental Health Interventions for Preventing Future Crime

w12374 Yu-Chu Shen
The Effects of HMO and Its For-Profit Expansion on the Survival of Specialized Hospital Services

w12361 David C. Grabowski
Jonathan Gruber
Joseph J. Angelelli

Nursing Home Quality as a Public Good

w12352 David M. Cutler
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

w12348 W. Kip Viscusi
Patricia Born

The Catastrophic Effects of Natural Disasters on Insurance Markets

w12335 José J. Escarce
Arvind K. Jain
Jeannette Rogowski

Hospital Competition, Managed Care and Mortality After Hospitalization for Medical Conditions: Evidence From Three States

w12323 Mark Duggan
Robert Rosenheck
Perry Singleton

Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program

w12304 Weili Ding
Steven F. Lehrer
J. Niels Rosenquist
Janet Audrain-McGovern

The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers

w12301 Martin Gaynor
What Do We Know About Competition and Quality in Health Care Markets?

w12294 W. Kip Viscusi
Rational Discounting for Regulatory Analysis

w12291 John Cawley
Richard V. Burkhauser

Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research

w12279 Martin Feldstein
Balancing the Goals of Health Care Provision

w12278 Emre Ozdenoren
Stephen Salant
Dan Silverman

Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges

w12273 Kanika Kapur
Jeannette Rogowski

Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples

w12267 Anne Case
Christina Paxson
Tom Vogl

Socioeconomic Status and Health in Childhood: A Comment on Chen, Martin and Matthews (2006)

w12254 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence From the Health Care Sector

w12244 Robert Town
Douglas Wholey
Roger Feldman
Lawton R. Burns

The Welfare Consequences of Hospital Mergers

w12241 Karen Eggleston
Yu-Chu Shen
Joseph Lau
Christopher H. Schmid
Jia Chan

Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care: What Explains the Different Results?

w12237 Rena M. Conti
Ernst R. Berndt
Richard G. Frank

Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

w12236 John Mullahy
Econometric Risk Adjustment, Endogeneity, and Extrapolation Bias

w12208 Lara Gardner
Donna Gilleskie

The Effects of State Medicaid Policies on the Dynamic Savings Patterns of the Elderly

w12205 Amy Finkelstein
James Poterba
Casey Rothschild

Redistribution by Insurance Market Regulation: Analyzing a Ban on Gender-Based Retirement Annuities

w12197 Hope Corman
Anne Carroll
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman

The Effects of Health on Health Insurance Status in Fragile Families

w12184 David M. Cutler
Mary Beth Landrum
Kate A. Stewart

Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions

w12181 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa

w12132 Tomas J. Philipson
Richard A. Posner

Antitrust in the Not-For-Profit Sector

w12105 Anna Aizer
Public Health Insurance, Program Take-Up, and Child Health

w12102 Christopher J. Ruhm
A Healthy Economy Can Break Your Heart

w12096 Genia Long
David Cutler
Ernst R. Berndt
Jimmy Royer
Andrée-Anne Fournier
Alicia Sasser
Pierre Cremieux

The Impact of Antihypertensive Drugs on the Number and Risk of Death, Stroke and Myocardial Infarction in the United States

w12080 Alan M. Garber
Charles I. Jones
Paul M. Romer

Insurance and Incentives for Medical Innovation

w12062 Miles Kimball
Helen Levy
Fumio Ohtake
Yoshiro Tsutsui

Unhappiness after Hurricane Katrina

w12040 David M. Cutler
Mary Beth Landrum
Kate A. Stewart

How Do the Better Educated Do It? Socioeconomic Status and the Ability to Cope with Underlying Impairment

w12039 Pierre Azoulay
Andrew Stellman
Joshua Graff Zivin

PublicationHarvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research

w12016 Tomas J. Philipson
Anupam B. Jena

Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures

w12008 David McAdams
Michael Schwarz

Perverse Incentives in the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

w11998 Phil Oreopoulos
Mark Stabile
Randy Walld
Leslie Roos

Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins

w11980 Brigitte Madrian
The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets

w11977 Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Bruce D. Meyer

The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance

w11975 Helen Levy
Health Insurance and the Wage Gap

w11963 David M. Cutler
Angus S. Deaton
Adriana Lleras-Muney

The Determinants of Mortality

w11951 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Sabina Ohri

Health Insurance Take-up by the Near Elderly

w11949 Daron Acemoglu
David Cutler
Amy Finkelstein
Joshua Linn

Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?

w11935 W. Kip Viscusi
Joel Huber

Hyperbolic Discounting of Public Goods

w11934 W. Kip Viscusi
Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

w11930 Tomas Philipson
Stephane Mechoulan
Anupam Jena

Health Care, Technological Change, and Altruistic Consumption Externalities


2005
w11871 Harsha Thirumurthy
Joshua Graff-Zivin
Markus Goldstein

The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya

w11859 Joni Hersch
W. Kip Viscusi

The Generational Divide in Support for Environmental Policies: European Evidence

w11833 Christian Hagist
Laurence Kotlikoff

Who's Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries

w11819 Katherine Ho
The Welfare Effects of Restricted Hospital Choice in the US Medical Care Market

w11818 Dana Goldman
Nicole Maestas

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice

w11810 Tomas J. Philipson
Anupam B. Jena

Who Benefits from New Medical Technologies? Estimates of Consumer and Producer Surpluses for HIV/AIDS Drugs

w11677 M. Kate Bundorf
Bradley Herring
Mark Pauly

Health Risk, Income, and Employment-Based Health Insurance

w11673 Leemore S. Dafny
Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers

w11662 Yu-Chu Shen
Karen Eggleston
Joseph Lau
Christopher Schmid

Hospital Ownership and Financial Performance: A Quantitative Research Review

w11649 Jean M. Abraham
Martin S. Gaynor
William B. Vogt

Entry and Competition in Local Hospital Markets

w11619 Amy Finkelstein
The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

w11609 Amy Finkelstein
Robin McKnight

What Did Medicare Do (And Was It Worth It)?

w11605 Amitabh Chandra
Andrew A. Samwick

Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

w11602 Darius Lakdawalla
Neeraj Sood

Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets

w11582 Michael Grossman
Education and Nonmarket Outcomes

w11568 Mark Duggan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

w11558 James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest

Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States

w11557 Ernst R. Berndt
Alisa B. Busch
Richard G. Frank
Sharon-Lise Normand

Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s

w11549 Andrew Epstein
Sean Nicholson

The Formation and Evolution of Physician Treatment Styles: An Application to Cesarean Sections

w11529 Jay Bhattacharya
Neeraj Sood

Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality

w11446 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Health Insurance Reform and HMO Penetration in the Small Group Market

w11436 Judith Shinogle
David Salkever

Firms' Demand for Employment-Based Mental Health Benefits

w11431 John A. Rizzo
Richard Zeckhauser

Generic Scrip Share and the Price of Brand-Name Drugs: The Role of the Consumer

w11425 Ernst R. Berndt
Adrian H. B. Gottschalk
Matthew W. Strobeck

Opportunities for Improving the Drug Development Process: Results from a Survey of Industry and the FDA

w11420 Leemore Dafny
David Dranove

Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs

w11419 Daniel P. Kessler
Can Ranking Hospitals on the Basis of Patients' Travel Distances Improve Quality of Care?

w11405 Kevin M. Murphy
Robert H. Topel

The Value of Health and Longevity

w11402 Alvin E. Roth
Tayfun Sonmez
M. Utku Unver

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

w11395 Thomas C. Buchmueller
Price and the Health Plan Choices of Retirees

w11379 Robert S. Huckman
Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State

w11376 Jill R. Horwitz
Does Corporate Ownership Matter? Service Provision in the Hospital Industry

w11358 Susan T. Stewart
Rebecca M. Woodward
Allison B. Rosen
David M. Cutler

A Proposed Method for Monitoring U.S. Population Health: Linking Symptoms, Impairments, and Health Ratings

w11332 Jonathan Gruber
Daniel M. Hungerman

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

w11327 Thomas S. Dee
Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

w11318 Roland G. Fryer
Paul S. Heaton
Steven D. Levitt
Kevin M. Murphy

Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine

w11316 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

The Determinants of the Willingness to be an Organ Donor

w11315 William Jack
Arik Levinson
Sjamsu Rahardja

Employee Cost-Sharing and the Welfare Effects of Flexible Spending Accounts

w11308 Angus Deaton
The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

w11304 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Zhehui Luo
Heather L. Bednarek

Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

w11303 Jay Bhattacharya
M. Kate Bundorf

The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

w11288 Ernst R. Berndt
Rachel Glennerster
Michael R. Kremer
Jean Lee
Ruth Levine
Georg Weizsacker
Heidi Williams

Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

w11263 Jay Bhattacharya
Azeem Shaikh
Edward Vytlacil

Treatment Effect Bounds: An Application to Swan-Ganz Catheterization

w11251 Jonathan Skinner
Douglas Staiger

Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers

w11229 Joseph Golec
Shantaram Hegde
John A. Vernon

Pharmaceutical Stock Price Reactions to Price Constraint Threats and Firm-Level R&D Spending

w11226 Daniel P. Kessler
Jeffrey J. Geppert

The Effects of Competition on Variation in the Quality and Cost of Medical Care

w11223 John Cawley
John A. Rizzo

The Competitive Effects of Drug Withdrawals

w11218 Dana Goldman
James P. Smith

Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies

w11192 Rexford E. Santerre
John A. Vernon

Hospital Ownership Mix Efficiency in the US: An Exploratory Study

w11182 Robert S. Huckman
Jason Barro

Cohort Turnover and Productivity: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

w11179 Yu-Chu Shen
Joshua McFeeters

Out-of-Pocket Health Spending Between Low- and High-Income Populations: Who is at Risk of Having High Financial Burdens?

w11176 Douglas E. Levy
Ellen Meara

The Effect of the 1998 Master Settlement on Prenatal Smoking

w11164 Neeraj Sood
Abby Alpert
Jay Bhattacharya

Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry

w11138 Philip J. Cook
Jan Ostermann
Frank A. Sloan

Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates

w11109 Mark G. Duggan
William N. Evans

Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments

w11100 David Cutler
Edward Glaeser

What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking and Other Health-Related Behaviors

w11096 David Cutler
Grant Miller

Water, Water, Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities

w11091 Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance

w11087 Robert Town
Douglas Wholey
Roger Feldman
Lawton R. Burns

Did the HMO Revolution Cause Hospital Consolidation?

w11063 Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood
Arleen Leibowitz

Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs


2004
w10930 Mark Duggan
Fiona Scott Morton

The Distortionary Effects of Government Procurement: Evidence from Medicaid Prescription Drug Purchasing

w10919 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving

w10653 Anne C. Case
Christina Paxson

Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality

w10429 Anna Aizer
Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti

Competition in Imperfect Markets: Does it Help California's Medicaid Mothers?

w10424 Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin
Anita Datar Garten
Susan Paddock
Debra Saliba
Mark Totten
Jose J. Escarce

How Much is Post-Acute Care Use Affected by Its Availability?

w10414 Robin McKnight
Home Care Reimbursement, Long-term Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes

w10409 Jeffrey E. Harris
Beatriz Lopez-Valcarcel

Asymmetric Social Interaction in Economics: Cigarette Smoking Among Young People in the United States, 1992-1999

w10401 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone

Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias

w10386 M. Kate Bundorf
Laurence Baker
Sara Singer
Todd Wagner

Consumer Demand for Health Information on the Internet

w10382 Helen Levy
Employer-Sponsored Disability Insurance: Where are the Gaps in Coverage?

w10365 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare

w10328 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Expanding Pharmaceutical Arsenal in the War on Cancer

w10324 Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel

The Illusion of Sustainability


2003
w10100 David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie

The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men

w10053 Kenneth Y. Chay
Michael Greenstone

Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

w10029 Sherry Glied
Kathrine Jack

Macroeconomic Conditions, Health Care Costs, and the Distribution of Health Insurance

w10027 Robert S. Huckman
Gary P. Pisano

The Effect of Organizational Context on Individual Performance

w10022 Richard G. Frank
Ernst R. Berndt
Alisa B. Busch

Quality-Constant Price Indexes for the Ongoing Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Study

w9972 Leemore S. Dafny
How Do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?

w9833 Michael Kremer
Christopher M. Snyder

Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?

w9831 Ted Joyce
Andrew Racine

Chip Shots: Association Between the State Children's Health Insurance Programs and Immunization Coverage and Delivery

w9827 William H. Dow
Kristine A. Gonzalez
Luis Rosero-Bixby

Aggregation and Insurance Mortality Estimation

w9797 Kenneth Leonard
Joshua Graff Zivin

Outcome Versus Service Based Payment in Health Care: Lessons from African Traditional Healers

w9788 Anne Case
Angela Fertig
Christina Paxson

From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance

w9649 Sean Nicholson
Barriers to Entering Medical Specialties

w9626 Mark G. Duggan
Does Medicaid Pay Too Much for Prescription Drugs? A Case Study of Atypical Anti-Psychotics

w9598 Tomas Philipson
Stephane Mechoulan

Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects: Generalizations from Pharmaceutical Markets

w9532 John J. Donohue III
Steven D. Levitt

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

w9487 W. Kip Viscusi
Joseph E. Aldy

The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World

w9471 Martin Gaynor
William B. Vogt

Competition Among Hospitals

w9468 Christopher J. Ruhm
Healthy Living in Hard Times

w9460 Amy Finkelstein
Health Policy and Technological Change: Evidence from the Vaccine Industry

w9453 Harvey S. Rosen
Stephen Wu

Portfolio Choice and Health Status

w9428 Janet Currie
Mehdi Farsi
W. Bentley MacLeod

Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts


2002
w9396 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980

w9394 Shin-Yi Chou
Jin-Tan Liu
James K. Hammitt

Health Insurance and Households' Precautionary Behaviors - An Unusual Natural Experiment

w9357 Ulf-G. Gerdtham
Christopher J. Ruhm

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

w9351 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Suchin Virabhak

Pharmaceutical-embodied technical progress, longevity, and quality of life: drugs as "equipment for your health"

w9346 Jay Bhattacharya
Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood

The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-Related Mortality

w9325 Charles I. Jones
Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share fo GDP Risen So Much?

w9311 David M. Cutler
Robert S. Huckman

Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State

w9303 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Tomas J. Philipson

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

w9299 Mark V. Pauly
Bradley Herring
David Song

Health Insurance on the Internet and the Economics of Search

w9281 M. Kate Bundorf
Mark V. Pauly

Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?

w9280 Jay Bhattacharya
Darius Lakdawalla

Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question

w9229 James W. Hughes
Michael J. Moore
Edward A. Snyder

"Napsterizing" Pharmaceuticals: Access, Innovation, and Consumer Welfare

w9209 Anna Aizer
Janet Currie

Networks or Neighborhoods? Correlations in the Use of Publicly-Funded Maternity Care in California

w9206 Gautam Gowrisankaran
Robert Town

Competition, Payer, and Hospital Quality

w9185 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Frank R. Lichtenberg

The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption: Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

w9167 Melissa A. Thomasson
Did Blue Cross and Blue Shield Suffer from Adverse Selection? Evidence from the 1950s

w9157 Kathleen Carey
Avi Dor

Does Managerial 'Outsourcing' Reduce Expense Preference Behavior? A Comparison of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Contract-Management in US Hospitals

w9148 Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey Kubik

Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision

w9144 Jean Marie Abraham
William B. Vogt
Martin Gaynor

Household Demand for Employer-Based Health Insurance

w9139 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of Changes in Drug Utilization on Labor Supply and Per Capita Output

w9130 Dahlia K. Remler
Joshua Graff Zivin
Sherry A. Glied

Modeling Health Insurance Expansions: Effects of Alternate Approaches

w9098 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Socioeconomic Status and Health: Why is the Relationship Stronger for Older Children?

w9094 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone

Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

w9091 Mark Duggan
Does Contracting Out Increase the Efficiency of Government Programs? Evidence from Medicaid HMOs

w9058 David Card
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

Using Discontinuous Eligibility Rules to Identify the Effects of the Federal Medicaid Expansions on Low Income Children

w9036 David M. Cutler
Employee Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage

w9031 Amy Finkelstein
The Interaction of Partial Public Insurance Programs and Residual Private Insurance Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Program

w9025 Peter Arcidiacono
Sean Nicholson

Peer Effects in Medical School

w9007 Sean Nicholson
Patricia M. Danzon
Jeffrey McCullough

Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality

w9004 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Thomas DeLeire
Steven Haider
Janet Currie

Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families

w8996 Frank Lichtenberg
Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: An Update

w8989 Henry Hansmann
Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan

Ownership Form and Trapped Capital in the Hospital Industry

w8986 Adriana Lleras-Muney
The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

w8917 Amy Finkelstein
Minimum Standards and Insurance Regulation: Evidence from the Medigap Market

w8907 Sean Nicholson
Nicholas S. Souleles

Physician Income Prediction Errors: Sources and Implications for Behavior

w8899 Jason R. Barro
Michael Chu

HMO Penetration, Ownership Status, and the Rise of Hospital Advertising

w8878 Jonathan Gruber
Robin McKnight

Why Did Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rise?

w8872 Jonathan Gruber
Sendhil Mullainathan

Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?

w8818 William D. Nordhaus
The Health of Nations: The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards

w8817 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature

w8813 Phillip B. Levine
Douglas Staiger

Abortion as Insurance

w8812 Janet Currie
John Fahr

Medicaid Managed Care: Effects on Children's Medicaid Coverage and Utilization

w8802 David M. Cutler
Health Care and the Public Sector

w8761 Sandra Decker
Carol Rapaport

Medicare and Disparities in Women's Health

w8755 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997

w8697 David Dranove
Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan
Mark Satterthwaite

Is More Information Better? The Effects of 'Report Cards' on Health Care Providers


2001
w8685 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Jaypee Sevilla

Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition

w8677 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Effect of New Drugs on Mortality from Rare Diseases and HIV

w8657 Jonathan Gruber
Taxes and Health Insurance

w8632 Michael Chernew
Gautam Gowrisankaran
A. Mark Fendrick

Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior

w8628 Victor R. Fuchs
Mark McClellan
Jonathan Skinner

Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly

w8621 Janet Currie
John Fahr

Hospitals, Managed Care, and the Charity Caseload in California

w8602 Peter Arcidiacono
Holger Sieg
Frank Sloan

Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking

w8589 Michael Chernew
Gautam Gowrisankaran
Dennis P. Scanlon

Learning and the Value of Information: Evidence From Health Plan Report Cards

w8587 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Jaypee Sevilla

The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

w8574 Thomas DeLeire
Helen Levy

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work

w8570 Deborah Azrael
Philip J. Cook
Matthew Miller

State and Local Prevalence of Firearms Ownership: Measurement, Structure, and Trends

w8556 David Cutler
Ellen Meara

Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality Over the 20th Century

w8548 Alan T. Sorensen
An Empirical Model of Heterogeneous Consumer Search for Retail Prescription Drugs

w8537 Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan

The Effects of Hospital Ownership on Medical Productivity

w8536 Sean Nicholson
Nicholas S. Souleles

Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice

w8534 Angus Deaton
Christina Paxson

Mortality, Income, and Income Inequality Over Time in Britain and the United States

w8523 Peter C. Coyte
Mark Stabile

Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs

w8522 Martin Gaynor
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor

Incentives in HMOs

w8514 David Card
Andrew K. G. Hildreth
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

The Measurement of Medicaid Coverage in the SIPP: Evidence from California, 1990-1996

w8497 John Geweke
Gautam Gowrisankaran
Robert J. Town

Bayesian Inference for Hospital Quality in a Selection Model

w8490 Craig William Perry
Harvey S. Rosen

Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Services Among the Self-Employed

w8481 Edward Miguel
Michael Kremer

Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya

w8457 Mark V. Pauly
Bradley Herring
David Song

Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured

w8455 David Cutler
Jonathan Gruber

Health Policy in the Clinton Era: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

w8447 Christopher J. Ruhm
Economic Expansions Are Unhealthy: Evidence from Microdata

w8419 Michael Baker
Mark Stabile
Catherine Deri

What do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?

w8395 Jonathan Skinner
Elliott Fisher
John E. Wennberg

The Efficiency of Medicare

w8385 Daniel A. Ackerberg
Matilde P. Machado
Michael H. Riordan

Measuring the Relative Performance of Providers of a Health Service

w8370 Angus Deaton
Darren Lubotsky

Mortality, Inequality and Race in American Cities and States

w8344 Anne Case
Darren Lubotsky
Christina Paxson

Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

w8318 Angus Deaton
Health, Inequality, and Economic Development

w8316 Craig William Perry
Harvey S. Rosen

The Self-Employed are Less Likely to Have Health Insurance Than Wage Earners. So What?

w8236 Victor R. Fuchs
The Financial Problems of the Elderly: A Holistic Approach

w8231 Ellen Meara
Why is Health Related to Socioeconomic Status?

w8216 Cory S. Capps
David Dranove
Shane Greenstein
Mark Satterthwaite

The Silent Majority Fallacy of the Elzinga-Hogarty Criteria: A Critique and New Approach to Analyzing Hospital Mergers

w8201 Leslie Eldenburg
Benjamin E. Hermalin
Michael S. Weisbach
Marta Wosinska

Hospital Governance, Performance Objectives, and Organizational Form

w8168 Joseph P. Newhouse
Medical Care Price Indices: Problems and Opportunities / The Chung-Hua Lectures

w8147 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Benefits and Costs of Newer Drugs: Evidence from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

w8133 Elaine Silverman
Jonathan Skinner

Are For-Profit Hospitals Really Different? Medicare Upcoding and Market Structure

w8123 Avi Dor
Administered Prices and Suboptimal Prevention: Evidence from the Medicare Dialysis Program

w8099 Angus Deaton
Relative Deprivation, Inequality, and Mortality

w8069 David Meltzer
Jeanette Chung

Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983 - 1993

w8063 John C. Ham
Lara D. Shore-Sheppard

The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the SIPP


2000
w8020 Laurence C. Baker
Managed Care and Technology Adoption in Health Care: Evidence from Magnetic Resonance Imaging

w8000 Dora L. Costa
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

w7979 Michael J. Moore
James W. Hughes

The Health Care Consequences of Smoking and its Regulation

w7966 Mark Duggan
Hospital Market Structure and the Behavior of Not-for-Profit Hospitals: Evidence from Responses to California's Disproportionate Share Program

w7942 Donna B. Gilleskie
Thomas A. Mroz

Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures

w7924 Richard Arnould
Marianne Bertrand
Kevin F. Hallock

Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence From the Managerial Labor Market

w7907 Sherry Glied
Joshua Zivin

How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?

w7895 John Mullahy
Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogenous Populations

w7887 Susan Athey
Scott Stern

The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes

w7883 Laurence C. Baker
Ciaran S. Phibbs

Managed Care, Technology Adoption, and Health Care: The Adoption of Neonatal Intensive Care

w7865 Nina Pavcnik
Do Pharmaceutical Prices Respond to Insurance?

w7838 Donna B. Gilleskie
Koleman S. Strumpf

The Behavioral Dynamics of Youth Smoking

w7832 Daniel Altman
David M. Cutler
Richard Zeckhauser

Enrollee Mix, Treatment Intensity, and Cost in Competing Indemnity and HMO Plans

w7829 Jonathan Gruber
Medicaid

w7816 Ernst R. Berndt
Anupa Bir
Susan H. Busch
Richard G. Frank
Sharon-Lise T. Normand

The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

w7814 Jonathan S. Feinstein
Chih-Chin Ho

Elderly Asset Management and Health: An Empirical Analysis

w7789 Mark Duggan
Hospital Ownership and Public Medical Spending

w7781 Jonathan Gruber
Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis

w7780 Jonathan Gruber
Jonathan Zinman

Youth Smoking in the U.S.: Evidence and Implications

w7772 Ernst R. Berndt
Robert S. Pindyck
Pierre Azoulay

Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs

w7760 David M. Cutler
Jonathan Gruber
Raymond S. Hartman
M.B. Landrum
J. Newhouse
Meredith B. Rosenthal

The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement

w7747 D. Cutler
R.G. Frank
C. King III
M.B. Rosenthal
E.R. Vigdor
A.M. Epstein
R.S. Hartman
J.P. Newhouse

How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

w7746 David M. Cutler
Felicia Knaul
Rafael Lozano
Oscar Mendez
Beatriz Zurita

Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

w7698 Casey B. Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson

Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

w7691 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Mothers and Others: Who Invests in Children's Health?

w7666 Christopher J. Ruhm
Parental Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w7605 Dora L. Costa
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change

w7562 Christopher Ruhm
Carey Borkoski

Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector

w7555 Leemore Dafny
Jonathan Gruber

Does Public Insurance Improve the Efficiency of Medical Care? Medicaid Expansions and Child Hospitalizations

w7553 Jonathan Gruber
Tax Subsidies for Health Insurance: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits

w7543 Melissa A. Thomasson
The Importance of Group Coverage: How Tax Policy Shaped U.S. Health Insurance

w7537 Daniel P. Kessler
Mark B. McClellan

Medical Liability, Managed Care, and Defensive Medicine

w7533 Daniel P. Kessler
Mark B. McClellan

How Liability Law Affects Medical Productivity

w7504 Victor R. Fuchs
Medicare Reform: The Larger Picture


1999
w7390 David M. Cutler
Ellen Meara

The Technology of Birth: Is it Worth it?

w7385 Jean Abraham
Ashish Arora
Martin Gaynor
Douglas Wholey

Enter at Your Own Risk: HMO Participation and Enrollment in the MedicareRisk Market

w7379 Victor R. Fuchs
The Future of Health Economics

w7327 Mark McClellan
Douglas Staiger

The Quality of Health Care Providers

w7324 Mark McClellan
Douglas Staiger

Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals

w7307 Donna B. Gilleskie
Byron F. Lutz

The Impact of Employer-Provided Health Insurance on Dynamic Employment Transitions

w7291 Janet Currie
Aaron Yelowitz

Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers

w7279 David M. Cutler
Ellen Meara

The Concentration of Medical Spending: An Update

w7266 Daniel P. Kessler
Mark B. McClellan

Is Hospital Competition Socially Wasteful?

w7205 Sherry Glied
Managed Care

w7204 Sherry Glied
The Value of Reductions in Child Injury Mortality in the U.S.

w7198 Alan M. Garber
Advances in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health Interventions

w7176 David M. Cutler
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Anatomy of Health Insurance

w7166 Jens Ludwig
Philip J. Cook

The Benefits of Reducing Gun Violence: Evidence from Contingent-Valuation Survey Data

w7141 Angus Deaton
Inequalities in Income and Inequalities in Health

w7140 Angus Deaton
Christina Paxson

Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality among American Cohorts

w7112 Martin Gaynor
William B. Vogt

Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets

w7089 David M. Cutler
Mark McClellan
Joseph P. Newhouse
Dahlia Remler

Pricing Heart Attack Treatments

w7052 Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Economics and Mental Health

w7037 Tomas Philipson
Economic Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

w7024 Ernst R. Berndt
Robert S. Pindyck
Pierre Azoulay

Network Effects and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs

w6980 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson

Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care

w6971 Irving Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro
David W. Wilcox

Quality Improvement in Health Care: A Framework for Price and Output Measurement

w6917 Martin Feldstein
Prefunding Medicare

w6910 Julie Lee
Mark McClellan
Jonathan Skinner

The Distributional Effects of Medicare

w6905 Philip J. Cook
Michael J. Moore

Alcohol

w6897 Daniel Kessler
Mark McClellan

Designing Hospital Antitrust Policy to Promote Social Welfare

w6896 Frank A. Sloan
Gabriel A. Picone
Donald H. Taylor
Jr.
Shin-Yi Chou

Does Where You Are Admitted Make a Difference? An Analysis of Medicare Data

w6895 David M. Cutler
Elizabeth Richardson

Your Money and Your Life: The Value of Health and What Affects It

w6894 Laurence Baker
Joanne Spetz

Managed Care and Medical Technology Growth

w6890 Paul Ellickson
Scott Stern
Manuel Trajtenberg

Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation


1998
w6838 Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

w6866 David M. Cutler
Louise Sheiner

Demographics and Medical Care Spending: Standard and Non-Standard Effects

w6851 Scott Stern
Manuel Trajtenberg

Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking

w6836 Janet Currie
Patricia Reagan

Distance to Hospitals and Children's Access to Care: Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?

w6825 Richard G. Frank
Jacob Glazer
Thomas G. McGuire

Measuring Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care

w6817 Ernst R. Berndt
David M. Cutler
Richard G. Frank
Zvi Griliches
Joseph P. Newhouse

Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues

w6799 Ernst R. Berndt
Susan H. Busch
Richard G. Frank

Price Indexes for Acute Phase Treatment of Depression

w6762 Jonathan Gruber
Health Insurance and the Labor Market

w6748 Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy
Mark C. McClellan

Medical Care at the End of Life: Diseases, Treatment Patterns, and Costs

w6744 Jon Gruber
John Kim
Dina Mayzlin

Physician Fees and Procedure Intensity: The Case of Cesarean Delivery

w6706 Frank A. Sloan
Gabriel A. Picone
Donald H. Taylor
Jr.
Shin-Yi Chou

Hospital Ownership and Cost and Quality of Care: Is There a Dime's Worth of Difference?

w6701 Martin Gaynor
Deborah Haas-Wilson

Change, Consolidation, and Competition in Health Care Markets

w6677 David M. Cutler
Mark McClellan
Joseph P. Newhouse

Prices and Productivity in Managed Care Insurance

w6672 David M. Cutler
Jill R. Horwitz

Converting Hospitals from Not-for-profit to For-profit Status

w6601 Frank R. Lichtenberg
The Allocation of Publically-Funded Biomedical Research

w6595 Susan Athey
Scott Stern

The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services

w6569 Frank R. Lichtenberg
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Mortality Reduction, and Economic Growth

w6554 Christopher J. Ruhm
Parental Leave and Child Health

w6527 Esel Y. Yazici
Robert Kaestner

Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

w6523 Sarah Feldman
David Scharfstein

Managed Care Provider Volume

w6514 David Cutler
Mark McClellan
Joseph Newhouse

The Costs and Benefits of Intensive Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease

w6513 Jonathan Skinner
John E. Wennberg

How Much is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life

w6500 John Mullahy
It'll Only Hurt a Second? Microeconomic Determinants of Who Gets Flu Shots

w6444 Warren K. Bickel
Gregory J. Madden

The Behavioral Economics of Smoking

w6443 Jeffrey K. Sarbaum
Solomon W. Polachek
Norman E. Spear

The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats

w6417 Richard G. Frank
Ernst R. Berndt
Susan H. Busch

Price Indexes for the Treatment of Depression

w6377 Darius Lakdawalla
Tomas Philipson

Nonprofit Production and Competition


1997
w6287 Sherry Glied
Tama Brooks

The Market and the Estimators: Forecasting the Cost of Medicare Catastrophic Coverage

w6277 Sherry Glied
Mark Stabile

Avoiding Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Evidence from the Medicare as Secondary Payer Legislation

w6249 Alan M. Garber
Thomas E. MaCurdy
Mark B. McClellan

Persistence of Medicare Expenditures Among Elderly Beneficiaries

w6242 Anne E. Brisson
Richard G. Frank
Elizabeth S. Notman
Julie A. Gazmararian

Impact of a Managed Behavioral Health Care Carve-Out: A Case Study of One HMO

w6225 Tomas Philipson
George Zanjani

Consumption vs. Production of Insurance

w6187 Laurence C. Baker
Sharmila Shankarkumar

Managed Care and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence From Medicare

w6182 Ernst R. Berndt
Iain M. Cockburn
Douglas L. Cocks
Arnold Epstein
Zvi Griliches

Is Price Inflation Different for the Elderly? An Empirical Analysis of Prescription Drugs

w6164 Sherry Glied
Jane Sisk
Sheila Gorman
Michael Ganz

Selection, Marketing, and Medicaid Managed Care

w6149 Martin Feldstein
Transition to a Fully Funded Pension System: Five Economic Issues

w6140 David M. Cutler
Louise Sheiner

Managed Care and the Growth of Medical Expenditures

w6139 Aaron Yelowitz
Why Did the SSI-Disabled Program Grow So Much? Disentangling the Effect of Medicaid

w6125 A. Bowen Garrett
Sherry Glied

The Effect of U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Sullivan v. Zebley on Child SSI and AFDC Enrollment

w4852 Martin Feldstein
Jonathan Gruber

A Major Risk Approach to Health Insurance Reform

w6114 David M. Cutler
Ellen Meara

The Medical Costs of The Young and Old: A Forty Year Perspective

w6107 David M. Cutler
Richard J. Zeckhauser

Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

w6087 Jonathan Gruber
Kathleen Adams
Joseph P. Newhouse

Physician Fee Policy and Medicaid Program Costs

w6055 Martin Feldstein
Andrew Samwick

The Economics of Prefunding Social Security and Medicare Benefits

w6042 Charles Mullin
Tomas Philipson

The Future of Old-Age Longevity: Competitive Pricing of Mortality Contingent Claims

w6041 Jonathan Gruber
Aaron Yelowitz

Public Health Insurance and Private Savings

w6035 Paul Gertler
Jonathan Gruber

Insuring Consumption Against Illness

w6034 Jonathan Gruber
Phillip Levine
Douglas Staiger

Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the "Marginal Child?"

w5306 Richard G. Frank
David S. Salkever

"Generic Entry and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals"

w6013 Mark McClellan
Jonathan Skinner

The Incidence of Medicare

w5987 Laurence C. Baker
Martin L. Brown

The Effect of Managed Care on Health Care Providers

w5985 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

The Technology of Birth: Health Insurance, Medical Interventions, and Infant Health

w5957 Jason R. Barro
David Cutler

Consolidation in the Medical Care Marketplace: A Case Study from Masschusetts

w5953 William E. Encinosa III
Martin Gaynor
James B. Rebitzer

The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems

w5948 David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie

Retiree Health Insurance and the Labor Force Behavior of Older Men in the 1990s

w5946 David Meltzer
Accounting for Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

w5931 David S. Salkever
Marisa E. Domino

Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination: A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities

t0210 Tomas Philipson
Observational Agency and Supply-Side Econometrics

w5891 Alan B. Krueger
Helen Levy

Accounting for the Slowdown in Employer Health Care Costs


1996
w5866 Jonathan Gruber
Disability Insurance Benefits and Labor Supply

w5843 Philip J. Cook
Allan M. Parnell
Michael J. Moore
Deanna Pagnini

The Effects of Short-Term Variation in Abortion Funding on Pregnancy Outcomes

w5834 Sherry Glied
Christina Hoven
Robert Moore
A. Bowen Garrett

Medicaid and Service Use Among Homeless Adults

w5831 Jonathan Gruber
Health Insurance for Poor Women and Children in the U.S.: Lessons from the Past Decade

w5813 Ernst R. Berndt
Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire

Alternate Insurance Arrangements and the Treatment of Depression: What Are the Facts?

w5796 David M. Cutler
Sarah Reber

Paying for Health Insurance: The Tradeoff between Competition and Adverse Selection

w5781 David E. Bloom
Cecilia Conrad
Cynthia Miller

Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility

w5751 David M. Cutler
Mark McClellan

The Determinants of Technological Change in Heart Attack Treatment

w5688 Christopher J. Ruhm
The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe

w5669 John Cawley
Tomas Philipson

An Empirical Examination of Information Barriers to Trade in Insurance

w5640 Matthew J. Eichner
Mark B. McClellan
David A. Wise

Insurance or Self-Insurance?: Variation, Persistence, and Individual Health Accounts

w5615 Phillip B. Levine
Douglas Staiger
Thomas J. Kane
David J. Zimmerman

Roe v. Wade and American Fertility

w5147 Jonathan Gruber
James Poterba

Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance

w5591 David M. Cutler
Public Policy for Health Care

w5525 David M. Cutler
Brigitte C. Madrian

Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs: Evidence on Hours Worked

w5514 David F. Bradford
Derrick A. Max

Implicit Budget Deficits: The Case of a Mandated Shift to Community-Rated Health Insurance

w5466 Daniel P. Kessler
Mark McClellan

Do Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?

w4435 Jonathan Gruber
James M. Poterba

Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance: Evidence from the Self-Employed

w5409 Jay Bhattacharya
Alan M. Garber
Thomas MaCurdy

Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees


1995
w4916 James M. Poterba
Government Intervention in the Markets for Education and Health Care: How and Why?

w5360 Laurence C. Baker
HMOs and Fee-For-Service Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from Medicare

w5356 Laurence C. Baker
Kenneth S. Corts

The Effects of HMOs on Conventional Insurance Premiums: Theory and Evidence

w4460 Martin Gaynor
Gerard F. Anderson

Uncertain Demand, The Structure of Hospital Costs, and the Cost of EmptyHospital Beds

w5297 Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Robert Cole
Sylvia K. Reed

Evaluating Mental Health Capitation Treatment: Lessons from Panel Data

w5294 Mark B. McClellan
David A. Wise

Where the Money Goes: Medical Expenditures in a Large Corporation

w5248 David S. Salkever
Richard G. Frank

Economic Issues in Vaccine Purchase Arrangements

w5228 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Non-Employment and Health Insurance Coverage

w5157 Wesley A. Magat
Michael J. Moore

Consumer Product Safety Regulation in the United States and the United Kingdom: The Case of Bicycles

w5153 Michael J. Moore
Death and Tobacco Taxes

w5152 Michael J. Moore
Philip J. Cook

Habit and Heterogeneity in the Youthful Demand for Alcohol

w5148 David E. Bloom
Ajay S. Mahal

Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

w5116 David N. Beede
David E. Bloom

Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste

w5082 David M. Cutler
Jonathan Gruber

Does Public Insurance Crowd Out Private Insurance?

w5052 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical care, and Child Health

w5034 Alan M. Garber
To Comfort Always: The Prospects of Expanded Social Responsibility for Long-Term Care

w5017 Timothy Waidmann
John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum

The Illusion of Failure: Trends in the Self-Reported Health of the U.S. Elderly

w4695 Martin Gaynor
Issues in the Industrial Organization of the Market for Physician Services


1994
w4981 Judith K. Hellerstein
The Demand for Post-Patent Prescription Pharmaceuticals

w4942 Michael Kremer
Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids?

w4941 Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey D. Kubik

Disability Insurance Rejection Rates and the Labor Supply of Older Workers

w4933 Jonathan Gruber
Maria Owings

Physician Financial Incentives and Cesarean Section Delivery

w4930 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber
Michael Fischer

Physician Payments and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Fee Policy

w4920 Laurence C. Baker
Does Competition from HMOs Affect Fee-For-Service Physicians?

w4880 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
John R. Penrod
Harvey S. Rosen

Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs

w4879 David Cutler
Market Failure in Small Group Health Insurance

w4803 Jeffrey E. Harris
A Working Model for Predicting the Consumption and Revenue Impacts of Large Increases in the U.S. Federal Cigarette Excise Tax

w4700 Paul Gertler
Roland Sturm
Bruce Davidson

Information and the Demand for Supplemental Medicare Insurance

w4644 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

Saving Babies: The Efficacy and Cost of Recent Expansions of Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women


1993
w4594 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte Madrian

Health Insurance and Early Retirement: Evidence from the Availability of Continuation Coverage

w4589 Jonathan Gruber
Maria Hanratty

The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance: Evidence from Canada

w4572 Jonathan S. Feinstein
Elderly Health, Housing, and Mobility

w4479 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Limited Insurance Portability and Job Mobility: The Effects of Public Policy on Job-Lock

w4469 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Health Insurance Availability and the Retirement Decision

w4388 Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Health Insurance Provision and Labor Market Efficiency in the United States

w4371 Henry S. Farber
Michael J. White

A Comparison of Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in Medical Malpractice

w4302 David M. Cutler
Louise M. Sheiner

Policy Options for Long-Term Care

w4301 David M. Cutler
Why Doesn't the Market Fully Insure Long-Term Care?

w4300 David M. Cutler
The Incidence of Adverse Medical Outcomes Under Prospective Payments

w4284 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Medicaid and Medical Care for Children


1992
w4239 Jonathan Gruber
State Mandated Benefits and Employer Provided Health Insurance

w4221 Eugene M. Lewit
Alan C. Monheit

Expenditures on Health Care for Children and Pregnant Women

w4190 Jonathan Gruber
The Effect of Price Shopping in Medical Markets: Hospital Responses to PPOs in California

w4164 Alan M. Garber
Charles E. Phelps

Economic Foundations of Cost Effective Analysis


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