Recent Publications *

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Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement, Nicole Maestas, Journal of Human Resources (2010)

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Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify and Estimate a Structural Model of Retirement, Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen, and Mathis Wagner (2009)

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Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers", Kathleen Mullen, Richard Frank, and Meredith Rosenthal, NBER Working Paper No. 14886 (2009)

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Does Medicare Save Lives?, David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas, Forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics (2009)

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

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Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap, Nicole Maestas, Mathis Schroeder, and Dana P. Goldman, Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap (2009)

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

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Impact of Specialty Drugs on the Use of Other Medical Services, Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Grant D. Lawless, American Journal of Managed Care (2008)
US Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla, Dana Goldman, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Neeraj Sood, Robert Lempert, Italo Gutierrez, and Ze Cong, Health Affairs (2008)

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Innovation and the Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood, Journal of Public Economics (2008)
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Updated as of 06/28/09

Top 10 Papers in RAND Health — Bing Center for Health Economics *

  1. Systematic Review: Impact of Health Information Technology on Quality, Efficiency, and Costs of Medical Care, Shinyi Wu, Basit Chaudhry, Jerome Wang, Margaret Maglione, Walter Mojica, Elizabeth Roth, Sally C. Morton, and Paul G. Shekelle, Annals of Internal Medicine (2006).
  2. Prescription Drug Cost Sharing, Dana P. Goldman, Geoffrey F. Joyce, and Yuhui Zheng, Journal of the American Medical Association (2007).
  3. Does Age or Life Expectancy Better Predict Health Care Expenditures?, Baoping Shang and Dana P. Goldman, Health Economics (2007).
  4. Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers", Kathleen Mullen, Richard Frank, and Meredith Rosenthal, NBER Working Paper No. 14886 (2009).
  5. Reducing the Risk of Falls and Fall-related Injuries among Older People , David A. Ganz and Shinyi Wu, Report prepared for the Workshop on the Social Determinants of Adult Health and Mortality. Organized by National Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC, (2007).
  6. Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla, Tomas J. Philipson, and Jay Bhattacharya, American Economic Review: AEA Papers and Proceedings (2006).
  7. The Nonprofit Sector and Industry Performance, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson, Journal of Public Economics (2006).
  8. Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify and Estimate a Structural Model of Retirement, Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen, and Mathis Wagner (2009).
  9. Terrorism Insurance Policy and the Public Good, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and George Zanjani, St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary (2004).
  10. Role of Complementarities in Technology Adoption: The Case of DVD Players, Pinar Karaca-Mandic (2007).
* Based on the average number of full-text downloads per day since the paper was posted.
Updated as of 06/28/09