Articles

HIV Treatment and Risky Sexual Behavior (with Darius Lakdawalla and Dana P. Goldman), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2008)
 

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The Effect of State Cost Containment Strategies on the Insurance Status and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) for HIV Infected People (with Arkadipta Ghosh and Arleen Leibowitz), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2008)
In an effort to balance their budgets many states are considering reducing eligibility for Medicaid....
 

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The Short and Long Run Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Fatal Automobile Crashes (with Arkadipta Ghosh), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2008)
Prior literature suggests that Daylight Saving Time (DST) can both increase the risk of automobile...
 

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Does How Much and How You Pay Matter? Evidence from the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (with Melinda Buntin and José J. Escarce), Forthcoming in Journal of Health Economics (2008)
We use the implementation of a new prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient rehabilitation facilities...
 

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Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (with Dana P. Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2006)
We used claims data from a large U.S. employer that introduced changes in its medical...
 

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Immigrants And The Cost Of Medical Care (with Dana P. Goldman, James P. Smith, and Neeraj Sood), Health Affairs (2006)
Foreign-born adults in Los Angeles County, California, constituted 45 percent of the county’s population ages...
 

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Health Insurance and the Obesity Externality (with Jay Bhattacharya), Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research (2006)
 

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New Evidence on Hospital Profitability by Payer Group and the Effects of Payer Generosity (with Bernard Friedman, Kelly Engstrom, and Diane McKenzie), International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics (2006)

This study provides (a) new estimates of U.S. hospital profitability by payer group, controlling for...

 

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HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior (with Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla), The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)
 

HIV Treatment Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and Dana Goldman), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2006)
 

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Rising Medicare Costs: Are We In Crisis? (with Dana Goldman), Health Affairs (2006)

Kenneth Thorpe and David Howard provide an important snapshot of the longterm trends in Medicare...

 

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Legal Status And Health Insurance Among Immigrants (with Dana Goldman and James P. Smith), Health Affairs (2005)

The foreign-born represent a disproportionate share of nonelderly U.S. adults without health insurance. Using data...

 

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Price regulation in secondary insurance markets (with Dana Goldman and Jay Bhattacharya ), Journal of Risk and Insurance (2005)

Secondary life insurance markets are growing rapidly. From nearly no transactions in 1980, a wide...

 

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The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases (with Dana P. Goldman and Arleen Leibowitz), Economics Letters (2005)

We examine how employees reallocate compensation in response to increase in health insurance premiums. We...

 

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Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance (with Dana P. Goldman and Arleen Leibowitz), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2005)
Many companies have defined-contribution benefit plans requiring employees to pay the full cost (before taxes)...
 

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The reallocation of compensation in response to health insurance premium increases (with Dana Golman and Arleen Leibowitz), Economics Letters (2004)

We examine how employees reallocate compensation in response to increase in health insurance premiums. We...

 

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Social insurance and the design of innovation incentives (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla), Economics Letters (2004)

We consider the insurance aspects of research policy. Patents or rewards have an advantage over...

 

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The Link between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-Related Mortality (with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dana P. Goldman), Journal of Health Economics (2003)

As policymakers consider expanding insurance coverage for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV+) population, it is...

 

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The link between public and private insurance and HIV-related mortality (with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dana Goldman), Journal of Health Economics (2003)

As policymakers consider expanding insurance coverage for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV+) population, it is...

 

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Optimal contributions to flexible spending accounts (with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Michael Schoenbaumb), Economics Letters (2003)

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) permit tax-free healthcare spending. FSA dollars at year-end are lost. Given...

 

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Determinants of Antidepressant Treatment Outcome (with Michael Treglia, Robert L. Obenchain, Brian Dulisse, Catherine A. Melfi, and Thomas W. Croghan), The American Journal of Managed Care (2000)

Objective: To understand the determinants of the outcome of an episode of major depression, including...

 

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Criminal Prosecution and HIV-related Risky Behavior (with Adeline Delavande and Dana P. Goldman), American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings (2008)
 

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The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla), NBER Working Paper (2007)
Rewarding inventors with inefficient monopoly power has long been regarded as the price of encouraging...
 

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Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla), Darius N. Lakdawalla (2006)

Monopolies appear throughout medical care markets, as a result of patents, limits to the extent...

 

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Comparison of Medicare Spending and Outcomes for Beneficiaries with Lower Extremity Joint Replacements (with Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Partha Deb, José Escarce, Carrie Hoverman, and Susan Paddock), RAND Health working paper series (2005)
The primary objective of this study is to conduct a set of analyses comparing costs...
 

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Technology, Monopoly, and the Decline of the Viatical Settlements Industry (with Abby Alpert and Jay Bhattacharya), NBER (2005)

The viatical settlement industry provides an opportunity for terminally-ill consumers, typically HIV patients, to exploit...

 

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Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks (with Jayanta Bhattacharya and Dana Goldman), NBER (2003)

This paper develops a market-based test of whether consumers make systematic mistakes in assessing their...