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How do Student Researchers Become Experts in Health Care Data Analysis at USC? They Go To the Data Core
In the field of health care, some research can only be performed by getting into the depths of databases. So when a question of medicine or administration is asked, an expert must plunge into the numbers – and many of those valued employees are USC graduates, thanks to knowledge gained at the Schaeffer Center’s Data Core.
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What Do We Know, and How Do We Feel About Police Homicides in the US?
A year ago a Washington Post article posed an ominous question: How many police shootings take place a year? The answer was startling: No one knows.Â
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A New Line of Specialty Drugs: PCSK9 Inhibitors (Part 2)
The major group likely to benefit are people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)- an inherited disorder effecting around one in 500 Americans.
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What’s a Fair Price? The Debate Over Value & Cost of Specialty Drugs (Part 1)
How do we make these treatments affordable and accessible to those who need them most while ensuring quality care and encouraging new innovation?
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Long Term Educational Consequences of Alternative Conditional Cash Transfer Designs: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
Unlike traditional payments, forcing families to save a portion of their stipend induces students to enroll in college at higher rates than students in the control condition.
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Adults are Costly
It’s easy to get distracted by the controversy and politicizing that all-too-often occupies vaccine debate, but regardless of ones stance on the issue, the high costs associated with the diseases they prevent are indisputable.
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Broadening Education Policy Research: The Character Assessment Initiative
The point of our work on culturally-enriching activities and character is to expand the scope of education policy research.Â
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Four Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Medicare
With the increase in beneficiaries from the aging baby boomer generation inevitably will come a larger price tag. This is leading many policy and industry experts to speculate and worry about the program’s long term ability to provide quality and affordable coverage.
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Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives
We consider how individuals act near the so-called donut hole, the large coverage gap in Medicare Part D that started at $2,510 in total expenditures for the year of our sample.
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Reports of a Slowdown in Childhood Obesity Don’t Tell the Whole Story
My colleague Paul Chung from UCLA and I analyzed the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and found overweight and obesity increased 20 percent among kindergartners from low- and middle-income households over the course of a decade
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