Articles

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Hospital Spending and Inpatient Mortality: Evidence from California (with Anupam Jena and Dana Goldman), Annals of Internal Medicine (2011)
 

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How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach (with Dana Goldman), Journal of Industrial Economics (2011)

We analyze the cost of quality improvement in hospitals, dealing with two challenges. Hospital quality...

 

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospital Care Resulting from Air Pollution in Excess of Federal Standards (with Andrew Hackbarth and Dana Goldman), Social Science and Medicine (2011)
 

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The Benefits from Giving Makers of Conventional ‘Small Molecule’ Drugs Longer Exclusivity Over Clinical Trial Data (with Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, Jesse Malkin, and Tomas Philipson), Health Affairs (2011)

Pharmaceutical companies and generic drug manufacturers have long been at odds over “data exclusivity” regulations....

 

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The Emerging Importance of Patient Amenities in Hospital Care (with Dana Goldman and Mary Vaiana), New England Journal of Medicine (2010)
 

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Efficiency and Its Measurement: What Practitioners Need To Know (with Peter Hussey, Han de Vries, Margaret Wang, Paul Shekelle, and Elizabeth McGlynn), American Journal of Managed Care (2009)
 

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A Systematic Review of Health Care Efficiency Measures (with Peter Hussey, Han de Vries, Margaret Wang, Susan Chen, Paul Shekelle, and Elizabeth McGlynn), Health Services Research (2009)

Objective: To review and characterize existing health care efficiency measures in order to facilitate a...

 

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What Can We Learn about Hospitals from the Revealed Preferences of Patients? (with Dana Goldman), Vox (2008)

In choosing their hospital, patients are concerned with both quality of care and amenities such...

 

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Alcohol and Environmental Justice: The Density of Liquor Stores and Bars in Urban Neighborhoods in the United States (with Deborah Cohen, Jeanne Ringel, and Roland Sturm), Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (2007)

Objective: This study had two purposes: (1) to characterize the density of liquor stores and...

 

Contributions to Books

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Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability? (with Boalt Hall and RAND and Bogdan Savych), Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability? (2007)
 

Unpublished Papers

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Hospitals As Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand (with Dana Goldman), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 14619 (2008)

Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role...

 

Other

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The Impact of Air Quality on Hospital Spending (with Andrew Hackbarth and Dana Goldman) (2010)