Amy Finkelstein,Geoffrey Kocks,Maria Polyakova et al.
Amy Finkelstein et al.
We use linked survey and administrative data to document differences across multiple socio-economic and demographic groups in the extent of adverse economic and health impacts of the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United St...
Amitabh Chandra,Pragya Kakani,Adam Sacarny
Amitabh Chandra
We develop a framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white heart attack patients. Black patients receive care at lower-performing hospitals than white patients....
Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare [0.03%]
举报人能否根除公共支出欺诈？来自医疗保险的证据
Jetson Leder-Luis
Jetson Leder-Luis
This paper analyzes private anti-fraud enforcement under the False Claims Act, which compensates whistleblowers for litigating against healthcare providers who overbill the US government. I conduct several case studies of successful whistle...
Samuel Norris,Matthew Pecenco,Jeffrey Weaver
Samuel Norris
This paper analyzes the effect of incarceration on mortality using administrative data from Ohio between 1992 and 2017. We first document that long-run survival is higher among the incarcerated than similar non-incarcerated defendants. Usin...
Doing More with Less: Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness [0.03%]
以较少的投入获得更高的回报——基层医疗服务效率预测模型
Janet Currie,Jonathan Zhang
Janet Currie
We use data from the Veterans Administration to examine the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs). Leveraging quasi-random assignment of veterans to PCPs, we measure effectiveness using ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) and ho...
Jason Abrevaya,Stephen G Donald
Jason Abrevaya
Missing data are a common challenge facing empirical researchers. This paper presents a general GMM framework and estimator for dealing with missing values of an explanatory variable in linear regression analysis. The GMM estimator is effic...
THE IMPACT OF EMERGENCY CASH ASSISTANCE IN A PANDEMIC: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的紧急现金补助效果：哥伦比亚的实验证据
Juliana Londoño-Vélez,Pablo Querubín
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
We study the impact of money on households during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Colombia rolled out a new unconditional cash transfer (UCT) to 1 million households in poverty worth US$19 (PPP US$55.6) and paid every five to eight we...
Reconciling Seemingly Contradictory Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and the Massachusetts Health Reform [0.03%]
从俄勒冈州健康保险实验和马萨诸塞州卫生改革中看似乎矛盾的结果之间的协调关系
Amanda E Kowalski
Amanda E Kowalski
A headline result from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is that emergency room (ER) utilization increased. A seemingly contradictory result from the Massachusetts health reform is that ER utilization decreased. I reconcile both result...
Michael Geruso,Timothy J Layton,Grace McCormack et al.
Michael Geruso et al.
Insurance markets often feature consumer sorting along both an extensive margin (whether to buy) and an intensive margin (which plan to buy). We present a new graphical theoretical framework that extends a workhorse model to incorporate bot...
Adaptation and the Mortality Effects of Temperature Across U.S. Climate Regions [0.03%]
美国气候区的温度与死亡率关系及适应气候变化的影响
Garth Heutel,Nolan H Miller,David Molitor
Garth Heutel
We estimate how the mortality effects of temperature vary across U.S. climate regions to assess local and national damages from projected climate change. Using 22 years of Medicare data, we find that both cold and hot days increase mortalit...