Mireille Jacobson
Associate Professor
The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
University of Southern California
3715 McClintock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90089
e-mail: jacobson [the symbol that
shall not be named] nber
[dot] org
vitae (pdf) 
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Selected Publications (Not Up to Date)
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Beyond Incentives: Do School's Use Accountability Resources Effectively?
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  with Marigee Bacolod and John DiNardo, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2012, 30(1): 149-163.
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Geographic Variation in Physician Response to a Major Medicare Reimbursement Change
  with Craig C. Earle and Joseph P. Newhouse, New England Journal of Medicine, 2011, 365:2049-2052.
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Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services
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with Heather Royer, American Economic Journal: Applied, 2011, 3(1): 189–223.
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The Impact of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act on Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment
  with Joseph P. Newhouse, Margaret Price and Craig C. Earle, Health Affairs, 2010, 29(7): 1394-1402.
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Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing, and Local Budgets
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  with Katherine Baicker, Journal of Public Economics, December 2007, 91(11-12): 2113-2136
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Parity for Whom? Exemptions and the Extent of State Mental Health Parity Legislation
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with Tom Buchmueller, Philip Cooper and Sam Zuvekas, Health Affairs, 2007, 6(4): w483-w487.
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Can Private Companies Contribute to Public Outreach Efforts? Evidence from California
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with Tom Buchmueller, Health Affairs, March/April 2007, 26(2) 538-548.
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How Far to the Hospital? The Effect of Hospital Closures on Access to Care
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with Tom Buchmueller and Cheryl Wold, Journal of Health Economics, March/April 2006, 25(4) 740-761.
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The Effect of Medicare reimbursement Policies on Cancer Chemotherapy Treatment
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with A. James O'Malley, Craig C. Earle, Peter Gaccione, Juliana Pakes, and Joseph P. Newhouse, Health Affairs, March/April 2006, 25(2): 437-443.
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The Effect of Prohibition on Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Drunkenness Arrests
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with Angela Dills and Jeff Miron, Economic Letters, February 2005, 86(2): 279-284.
 
Reprinted in John H Cawley and Donald S. Kenkel, eds, The Economics of Health Behaviours, forthcoming Spring 2008.
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Baby Booms and Drug Busts: Trends in Youth Drug Use in the United States
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Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2004 119(4): 1481-1512.
 
Reprinted in John H Cawley and Donald S. Kenkel, eds, The Economics of Health Behaviours, forthcoming Spring 2008.
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Drug Testing in the Trucking Industry: The Effect on Highway Safety
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Journal of Law and Economics, April 2003 46 (1): 131-156.
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Prohibition and the Market for Illegal Drugs
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with Suren Basov and Jeffrey Miron, World Economics, October-December 2001 4(2): 133-158.
Other Publications
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A Market for Disaster Preparedness: Using Cap and Trade to Regulate Hospital Provision of Essential Services,
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with Tom Y. Chang (USC). Forthcoming in Regulation and Litigation, eds. Daniel Kessler and Andrei Shleifer, The University of Chicago Press.
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Regulating Cannabis: Options for Control in the 21st Century,
 
The International Journal of Drug Policy, Septmeber 1999 10(4): 271-272.
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