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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Recent Posts
- 11 Interesting Charts from the CEA’s Economic Report of the President
- Corporate Profits, Wages, and Shared Prosperity: Interview with President Obama
- Do Dividend Tax Cuts Increase Investment and Hiring?
- Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start
- Capital Taxation in the 21st Century
- Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
- Mr. Brownback’s solution to fill the current $200M budget hole
- How Gary Becker saw the scourge of discrimination
Twitter Updates
- RT @stiglitzian: Stiglitz argues that Piketty misdiagnosed the problem of inequality, including by ignoring the role of land&housing. http:… 2 days ago
- Firefighters do a lot less firefighting than they used to. Here's what they do instead. vox.com/2014/10/30/707… via @josephstromberg 3 days ago
- RT @voxdotcom: Americans are making a big mistake about health care bit.ly/1FLEvpz http://t.co/GGVYj4067a 3 days ago
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- RT @albouy: Nevada and Louisiana are opposites & the South no longer repels! "Mapping Migration in the United States" http://t.co/yhpvMi487… 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: Healthcare Costs
Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage
From Marika Cabral, Michael Geruso, and Neale Mahoney: The debate over privatizing Medicare stems from a fundamental disagreement about whether privatization would primarily generate consumer surplus for individuals or producer surplus for insurance companies and health care providers. This paper investigates … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Healthcar, Healthcare Costs, Marika Cabral, Michael Geruso, Neale Mahoney
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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform
From Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski: We model the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national “mandate-based” health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage. Using our model, we characterize the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Kowalski, Health Reform, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Jonathan Kolstad
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More Insurers Lower Premiums: Evidence from Initial Pricing in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
From Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber, and Christopher Ody: First-year insurer participation in the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs) established by the Affordable Care Act is limited in many areas of the country. There are 3.9 participants, on (population-weighted) average, in the 395 … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Ody, Competition, Healthcare Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Leemore Dafny
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Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?
From Michael Frakes and Anupam Jena: Despite the fundamental role of deterrence in justifying a system of medical malpractice law, surprisingly little evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one … Continue reading
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Tagged Anupam Jena, Healthcare Costs, Law and Economics, Michael Frakes
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Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare’s Influence on Private Payment Systems
From Jeff Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb: We analyze Medicare’s influence on private payments for physicians’ services. Using a large administrative change in payments for surgical procedures relative to other medical services, we find that private payments follow Medicare’s lead. On average, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Healthcare Costs, Jeff Clemens, Joshua Gottlieb, Medicare
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Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending
From David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg: There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in healthcare expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys, linked to Medicare expenditures at the level of … Continue reading
Incomes & the Cost of a Colonoscopy across US Cities
I’m a bit late to posting this since I had my qualifying exams on Monday, but I saw this map for the front page story of this Sunday’s NYTimes and thought it was interesting. It shows how much the cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Biased Productivity, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, NYTimes, Productivity, Regional Variation
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