Lagged-price reimbursement contracts: The impact of medicare Part B on pharmaceutical price growth [0.03%]
关于医疗保险Part B对药品价格增长影响的滞后价格补偿合同研究
Angelique Acquatella,Keith Marzilli Ericson,Amanda Starc
Angelique Acquatella
We examine lagged-price cost-plus reimbursement contracts, focusing on Medicare Part B's payment for physician-administered drugs. While previous research has shown that Part B increased launch prices, we estimate its effect on later prices...
Robert I Harris
Robert I Harris
Humans undertake physical activity daily, yet we know little about how climate change might affect this fundamental aspect of life. Using 24 billion person-minute observations from a sample of Fitbit users in the United States, this paper e...
Regulating quasi-legal markets: Evidence from pain management clinic laws [0.03%]
监管准法律市场：来自疼痛管理诊所法规的证据
Yuji Mizushima,David Powell,Rahi Abouk et al.
Yuji Mizushima et al.
The opioid crisis has often been fueled by its simultaneous interaction with both medical and illicit markets, including "pill mills" that distribute legal substances in inappropriate and quasi-legal ways. Pain management clinic laws (PMCLs...
Disentangling Policy Effects Using Proxy Data: Which Shutdown Policies Affected Unemployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic? [0.03%]
利用代理数据分离政策效应：哪些封锁政策影响了新冠肺炎疫情下的失业率？
Edward Kong,Daniel Prinz
Edward Kong
We use high-frequency Google search data, combined with data on the announcement dates of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. states, to disentangle the short-run direct impacts of multiple different...
Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years Study [0.03%]
无条件现金转移支付与产妇就业：来自婴儿之初研究的证据
Maria Sauval,Greg J Duncan,Lisa A Gennetian et al.
Maria Sauval et al.
How the labor force participation of mothers of young children responds to unconditioned cash support remains an open question in policy debates. Using data from Baby's First Years, a large-scale randomized controlled study, we generate new...
Norma B Coe,David A Rosenkranz
Norma B Coe
Combining capitation with a cap on health care providers' average revenue can reduce allocative inefficiency. But the cap may be undercut by health care providers who churn their patient censuses. We investigate this possibility in the U.S....
Daniel Bauer,Darius Lakdawalla,Julian Reif
Daniel Bauer
We extend the conventional life-cycle framework for valuing health and longevity improvements to a stochastic setting with multiple health states and apply it to data on mortality, quality of life, labor earnings, and medical spending for a...
Public Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from the Railroad Retirement Act [0.03%]
铁路退休条例下的公共养老金与退休问题：来自铁路退休法案的证据
Matthew Pesner
Matthew Pesner
This paper estimates how public pensions affect retirement timing by examining the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, which replaced private railroad pensions with a national program comparable in many ways to Social Security. Leveraging link...
When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments [0.03%]
规模和复制的利与弊：暑期青年就业试验带来的启示
Sara B Heller
Sara B Heller
Two sources of treatment heterogeneity can undermine the scale-up and replication of successful human capital interventions: variation in the treatment itself and changes to the population served. This paper combines two new summer youth em...
The Effects of Physician Vertical Integration on Referral Patterns, Patient Welfare, and Market Dynamics [0.03%]
医生纵向一体化对转诊模式、患者福利和市场动态的影响
Christopher M Whaley,Xiaoxi Zhao
Christopher M Whaley
The growth of physician vertical integration raises concerns about distorted referral patterns, higher spending, and market foreclosure. Using 100% Medicare data, we combine reduced-form analysis with a discrete choice model to estimate the...