How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased? [0.03%]
copay卡对药价和药品购买量的影响是什么？
Leemore Dafny,Kate Ho,Edward Kong
Leemore Dafny
We estimate the causal effects of drug copayment coupons, which reduce consumer cost-sharing for branded prescription drugs, on net-of-rebate price and quantities sold. Focusing on drugs without generic substitutes, we show that coupon intr...
Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random-Assignment College Access Field Experiment [0.03%]
虚拟咨询能否提高大学入学率？来自随机干预高校普及实地实验的证据
Meredith Phillips,Sarah Reber
Meredith Phillips
Although in-person college access programs can be effective, less is known about whether low-cost and scalable virtual interventions can achieve the same benefits. We evaluate two variants of a virtual college counseling program. Students r...
Mireille Jacobson,David Powell
Mireille Jacobson
We conducted a field experiment that randomized advertisements, advertisement content, and prices across 2,204 counties in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising...
Jamie Hansen-Lewis,Michelle Marcus
Jamie Hansen-Lewis
Maritime shipping emits as much fine particulate matter as half of global road traffic. We are the first to measure the consequences of US maritime emissions standards on air quality, human health, racial exposure disparities, and behavior....
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nonexperts for Improving Vaccine Demand [0.03%]
非专业人士提高疫苗需求的有效性：实证证据
Marcella Alsan,Sarah Eichmeyer
Marcella Alsan
We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States-Black and White men without a college education. Our main finding is that laypeople ...
Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance [0.03%]
利用互补的私人保险估算公共保险的价值
Marika Cabral,Mark R Cullen
Marika Cabral
The welfare associated with public insurance is often difficult to quantify because the demand for coverage is unobserved and thus cannot be used to analyze welfare. However, in many settings, individuals can purchase private insurance to s...
John Bound,Breno Braga,Gaurav Khanna et al.
John Bound et al.
The number of international undergraduate students at U.S. public research universities increased dramatically over the last two decades, alongside concurrent reductions in state support for universities. We show that these trends are close...
Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination [0.03%]
对事前监管的投资：来自药品专利审查的证据
Michael D Frakes,Melissa F Wasserman
Michael D Frakes
We explore how the Patent Office may improve the quality of issued patents on "secondary" drug features by giving examiners more time to review drug-patent applications. Our findings suggest that current time allocations are causing examine...
Michael D Frakes,Jonathan Gruber,Timothy Justicz
Michael D Frakes
Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans Administration, highlight the dispute between public and private provision of health care services. Using novel data on childb...
The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization [0.03%]
组织边界对医疗卫生协调和利用的影响
Leila Agha,Keith Marzilli Ericson,Xiaoxi Zhao
Leila Agha
We measure organizational concentration-the distribution of a patient's healthcare across organizations-to examine how firm boundaries affect healthcare efficiency. First, when patients move to regions where outpatient visits are typically ...