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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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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
- Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
- Quantitative Spatial Economics
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Tag Archives: Healthcare
What are the Welfare Gains of the Individual Mandate: Evidence from MA
From Martin Hackmann, Jonathan Kolstad, and Amanda Kowalski: We develop a model of selection that incorporates a key element of recent health reforms: an individual mandate. Using data from Massachusetts, we estimate the parameters of the model. In the individual market for … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, Amanda Kowalski, Healthcare, Jonathan Kolstad, Martin Hackmann, Welfare Economics
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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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Who Benefits when the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program
From Mark Duggan, Amanda Starc, Boris Vabson: Governments contract with private firms to provide a wide range of services. While a large body of previous work has estimated the effects of that contracting, surprisingly little has investigated how those effects vary … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Amanda Starc, Boris Vabson, Healthcare, Incidence, Mark Duggan, Profits
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Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices
From Kate Ho and Robin Lee: We measure the impact of increased health insurer competition on negotiated hospital prices using detailed 2004 California claims data. We develop a theoretical bargaining model to motivate our empirical analysis, and use the competitiveness … Continue reading
MIT’s Heidi Williams Decodes Economics of Gene Sequencing
Here’s an interesting profile of Heidi Williams and her work on innovation in healthcare. HT: Marginal Revolution
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Tagged Healthcare, Heidi Williams, Innovation, Marginal Revolution, technology
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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
The Response of Drug Expenditure to Contract Design in Medicare Part D
From Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Paul Schrimpf, We study the demand response to non-linear price schedules using data on insurance contacts and prescription drug claims in Medicare Part D. Consistent with static response of drug use to price, we document … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Finkelstein, and Paul Schrimpf, Drugs, Health Care Costs, Healthcare, Liran Einav, Medicare
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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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Horrible Situation, Interesting Economics Experiment
From a NYTimes article on new Medicaid coverage holes in certain states, i.e. Texas, Florida, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, which are refusing to expand Medicaid: In most cases, she said, adults with incomes from 32 percent to 100 percent of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Future Research, Health Insurance, Healthcare, inequality, Medicaid, Middle Class
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Large Variation in Hospital Billing: Three Preliminary Takeaways from New U.S. Data
The NYTimes has an interesting article on variation in hospital billing. In addition to highlighting substantial dispersion for the same procedure even within local areas (e.g. “a hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a pacemaker, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's Cost Disease, CMS, Health Expenditures, Healthcare, Regional Variation
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