The RAND Corporation has presented the second Victor R. Fuchs Research Award to a team from Yale and Queen's University for publishing the best research paper with the potential to spawn new research in an underdeveloped area of health economics or health policy. The $10,000 prize has been awarded to Jason M. Fletcher of Yale University and Steven F. Lehrer of Queen's University. Their prize-winning paper is titled "The Effects of Adolescent Health on Educational Outcomes: Causal Evidence using 'Genetic Lotteries' between Siblings". The paper was published in Forum for Health Economics & Policy, an innovative online journal devoted to timely and important health care issues. It can be found at www.bepress.com/fhep. The award will be given annually by the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND in honor of Victor R. Fuchs, a member of the Forum's editorial board. Research by Fuchs demonstrated that economic analysis yielded valuable insight not only about medical resource use, but also health-related behaviors. Fuchs is a Stanford University economics professor who is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a former president of American Economics Association. Funding for the award is provided by the Bing Center's endowment.
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Recent Publications *
Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments, Luis Garicano and Paul Heaton, Journal of Labor Economics, Forthcoming (2010)
Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers", Kathleen Mullen, Richard Frank, and Meredith Rosenthal, RAND Journal of Economics (2010)
Understanding the Effects of Anti-Profiling Policies, Paul Heaton, Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming (2010)
Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work after Retirement, Nicole Maestas, Journal of Human Resources (2010)
How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging, Nicole Maestas and Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010)
Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time, Julie Zissimopoulos and James Smith, Intergenerational Mobility within and Across Nations – The Promise of Cross-national Research to Explain and Isolate the Factors which Enhance or Impede Mobility, (2010)
Aging in America in the Twenty-first Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society, S. Jay Olshansky, Dana P. Goldman, Yuhui Zheng, and John W. Rowe, The Milbank Quarterly (2009)
Efficiency and Its Measurement: What Practitioners Need To Know, John Romley, Peter Hussey, Han de Vries, Margaret Wang, Paul Shekelle, and Elizabeth McGlynn, American Journal of Managed Care (2009)
Pension Benefits & Retirement Decisions: Income vs. Price Elasticities, Dayanand Manoli, Kathleen Mullen, and Mathis Wagner (2009)
Does Medicare Save Lives?, David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2009)
- * Based on date of publication.
- Updated as of 01/31/10
Top 10 Papers in RAND Health — Bing Center for Health Economics *
- 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).
- The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare, David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas, American Economic Review (2008).
- Prescription Drug Cost Sharing, Dana P. Goldman, Geoffrey F. Joyce, and Yuhui Zheng, Journal of the American Medical Association (2007).
- Does Age or Life Expectancy Better Predict Health Care Expenditures?, Baoping Shang and Dana P. Goldman, Health Economics (2007).
- How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging, Nicole Maestas and Julie M. Zissimopoulos, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010).
- 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).
- 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).
- No-Fault Insurance and Automobile Accidents, Paul Heaton and Eric Helland (2008).
- The Nonprofit Sector and Industry Performance, Darius Noshir Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson, Journal of Public Economics (2006).
- Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers", Kathleen Mullen, Richard Frank, and Meredith Rosenthal, RAND Journal of Economics (2010).
- * Based on the average number of full-text downloads per day since the paper was posted.
- Updated as of 01/31/10