Journal Articles
Our work in Journal Articles
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Variation in Generic Dispensing Rates in Medicare Part D
Generic use has increased over time in Medicare Part D, but substantial variation across plans persists in a number of common classes.
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Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The researchers examine changes in health care use during the first 2 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April of 2020 relative to March and April of 2019 and 2018, and to examine whether changes in use differ by patient’s zip code–level race/ethnicity or income.
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Predicting Quantity and Quality of Life with the Future Elderly Model
The FEM performs at least as well as actuarial forecasts of mortality, while providing policy simulation features that are not available in actuarial models.
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Ideas About Resourcing Health Care in the United States: Can Economic Evaluation Achieve Meaningful Use?
In a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, we suggest several ways that economic evaluation could become an effective component of value-based decision-making.
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New Evidence on the Compensation of Chief Executive Officers at Nonprofit U.S. Hospitals
CEOs at hospitals earn substantially less than CEOs of publicly traded companies though more than presidents of nonprofit institutions of higher education.
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NBER: A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of COVID-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model
We show that no country is immune to the economic fallout of the pandemic because of global interconnections as evidenced by the case of Sweden.
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Decoding the Mystery of American Pain Reveals a Warning for the Future
In America today, the elderly report less pain than those in midlife. This is the mystery of American pain.
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Details Matter: Predicting When Nudging Clinicians Will Succeed or Fail
Subtle implementation details can greatly influence the effectiveness of behavioural nudges because of their inherent subjective and social nature
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AJMC: Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums
Policies to address surprise billing could reduce health insurance premiums by 1% to 5%.
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Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: Early Perceptions of COVID-19 and Self-Reported Social Distancing in the United States
we study individual’s perceptions on COVID-19 and social distancing during the week of March 10–16, 2020, a week when COVID-19 was officially declared to be a pandemic by WHO and when new infections in the US were more than doubling every three days.
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