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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.
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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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The Schaeffer Center’s Data Core Bring a Wealth of Experience, Expertise
At the heart of the Schaeffer Center’s Data Core are a group of five research programmers who support faculty, contribute to research projects, and help students get up to speed on research programming.
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Ending Suffering by Ending Persons
Because physician-assisted suicide does not just end suffering but also ends a person, it trusts that in the future we would be the same person that we are now—the person who wants to commit suicide, says Jason Doctor.
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