Affiliates' Research in Medical Journals, Summer 2025

07/03/2025

Many NBER-affiliated researchers publish some of their health-related findings in journals that preclude pre-publication distribution, and thus do not post them as NBER Working Papers. This is a partial listing of recent papers in this category by NBER affiliates.

The Medical Costs of Determining Eligibility and Waiting for a Kidney Transplantation
Xu K, Dor A, Mohanty S, Han J, Parvathinathan G, Braggs-Gresham JL, Held PJ, Roberts JP, Vaughan W, Tan JC, Scandling JD, Chertow GM, Busque S, Cheng XS. Medical Care 62(8), August 2024, pp. 521–529.

Small for Gestational Age and Age at Menarche in a Contemporary Population-Based US Sample
Sabu S, Corman H, Noonan K, Reichman NE, Kuhn KB, Radovick S. PLOS ONE 19(9), September 2024.

Exposure to School Racial Segregation and Late-Life Cognitive Outcomes
Lin Z, Wang Y, Gill TM, Chen X. JAMA Network Open 8(1), January 2025.

The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions
Park YR, Ho Y, Hallez K, Kaur S, Srinivasan M, Zhao J. Current Directions in Psychological Science 34(1), February 2025, pp. 21–28.

Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It
Hanushek EA, Kinne L, Witthöft F, Woessmann L. Science Advances 11(10), March 2025.

State Minimum Wage and Food Insecurity Among US Households With Children
Winkler MR, Clohan R, Komro KA, Livingston MD, Markowitz S. JAMA Network Open 8(3), March 2025.

The Role of Regional and Practice Trial Sites in Nonrepresentative Randomized Cancer Trial Enrollment
Shah SJ, Manz CR, Balthis B, Raman HS, Abaluck J, Keating NL, Agha L. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 2025.

Association Between the New York State Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Lockdown and Rates of Preterm Birth and Stillbirth Among Individuals with Medicaid Insurance
Howland RE, Lamb MR, Janevic T, Stingone J, Glied S. O&G Open 2(2), April 2025.

Impact of Nurse Home Visiting on Take-Up of Social Safety Net Programs in a Medicaid Population
Rokicki S, Oviedo D, Perreault N, Bates MA, Zhou RA, Baicker K, McConnell MA. Health Affairs Scholar 3(4), April 2025.

Obstetrician and Gynecologist Physicians' Practice Locations Before and After the Dobbs Decision
Staiger B, Bolotnyy V, Borrero S, Rossin-Slater M, Van Parys J, Myers C. JAMA Network Open 8(4), April 2025.

Public Coverage of Postpartum Services for Immigrants
Fabi R, Narváez Mena K, Desir A, White M, Wherry L, Steenland M. JAMA Health Forum 6(4), April 2025.

The Impact of Biosimilar Use on Healthcare Utilization among New Users of Etanercept for Inflammatory Arthritis: A Population-Based Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Zhou VY, Lacaille D, Zheng Y, Qian Y, Nosyk B, Xie H. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 45, April 2025.

The Prevalence of Functional Limitations in the US Workforce
Clark H, Ravesteijn B, Mullen KJ, Maestas N. PNAS 122(23), April 2025.

Insights from Refusal Patterns for Deceased Donor Kidney Offers
Guan G, Neelam S, Studnia J, Cheng XS, Melcher ML, Rees MA, Roth AE, Somaini P, Ashlagi I. Transplantation, May 2025.

Investigating Socioeconomic Deprivation and Antibiotic Prescribing Among Older Medicare Patients Using an Instrumental Variable Approach
Al Mohajer M, Slusky D, Nix D, Nicodemo C. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 5(1), May 2025.

Long-Term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy
Geronimus AT, Waidmann TA, Bound J, Pancini V, Yang M. Epidemiology 36(3), May 2025, pp. 287–296.

Long-Term Health Improvements and Economic Performance Among Individuals with Diabetes
Chapel JM, Goldman DP, Kahn ME, Tysinger B. JAMA Health Forum 6(5), May 2025.

Medicaid "Unwinding:" Much Of The Reduction In Medicaid-Paid Prescriptions Was Offset By Increased Commercial Coverage
Volkov E, Eloso J, Bosworth A, Finegold K, Buchmueller TC. Health Affairs 44(5), May 2025.

Associations between COVID-19 Infection, Symptom Severity, Perceived Susceptibility, and Long-Term Adherence to Protective Behaviors: The Los Angeles Pandemic Surveillance Cohort Study
Nok Lam CN, Kumar N, Herzig SE, Unger JB, Sood N. PLOS ONE 20(6), June 2025.

Delineating Life-Course Percentile Curves and Normative Values of Multi-Systemic Ageing Metrics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and China
Zhang L, Yu J, Jia X, Su Z, Hu Y, Zhang J, Yang W, Chen X, Hoogendijk EO, Huang H, Liu Z. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle 16(3), June 2025.

Does Exposure to Certified Stroke Centers Affect All Communities Equitably? Stroke Patient Outcomes by Community Socioeconomic Status
Shen YC, Kim AS, Hsia RY. Annals of Emergency Medicine, June 2025.

Early School Medicaid Expansions and Health Services for Children with Parental Opioid Use Disorder
Meinhofer A, Bullinger LR, Kelly CH, Fitzpatrick M. JAMA Health Forum 6(6), June 2025.

Intensive Nurse Home Visiting and Early Childhood Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Swanson K, Ayers S, Oviedo D, Zhou RA, Bates MA, Baicker K, Chien AT, McConnell M. JAMA Pediatrics, June 2025.

Financial Ties, Market Structure, Commercial Prices, and Medical Director Compensation in Dialysis
Xia X, Deng W, Eliason P, League RJ, McDevitt RC, Roberts JW, Wong H. JAMA Health Forum 6(6), June 2025.

Overlapping Markets and Quality Competition Among Community Health Centers
Li K, Dor A. Health Services Research 60(3), June 2025.

Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing Failed to Achieve Hospital Readmission Reductions and Other Targets
Burke RE, Hutchins F, Heintz J, Appel S, Norman J, Patel S, Gupta A, Rose L, Werner RM. Health Affairs 44(6), June 2025.

Trends in Authorized Generic Drug Launches and Their Effects on Competition in Oral-Solid Drug Markets in the US, 2016–23
Drake KM, Dunne G, Mason A, McGuire TG, Price A. Health Affairs 44(6), June 2025.

State Earned Income Tax Credit and Food Security: Results Among Economically At-Risk Households with Children
Winkler MR, Clohan R, Komro KA, Livingston MD, Markowitz S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 69(1), July 2025, Article 107637.

The Impact of Physician-Patient Gender Match on Healthcare Quality: An Experiment in China
Si Y, Chen G, Zhou Z, Yip W, Chen X. Social Science & Medicine 380, September 2025, Article 118166.