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The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare Spending
Sahni, Nikhil; Stein, George; Zemmel, Rodney; Cutler, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to simplify existing healthcare processes and create new, more efficient ones is a major topic of discussion in the industry. Yet healthcare lags other industries in AI adoption. In this paper, we estimate that wider adoption of AI could lead to...
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Technology Regulation Reconsidered : The Effects of Certificate of Need Policies on the Quantity and Quality of Diagnostic Imaging
Horwitz, Jill R.; Nichols, Austin; Colla, Carrie Hoverman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Estimates of the impact of Certificate of Need laws on medical care have been inconsistent, possibly because not all CON laws apply to all services. Using an original dataset identifying imaging-related CON laws, we estimate the effects of CON on CT and MRI, using regression discontinuities at...
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Thick Market Externalities and the Persistence of the Opioid Epidemic
Cutler, David M.; Donahoe, J. Travis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Opioid overdose death rates in the United States have risen continuously for over three decades, increasing 2,142 percent in total from 1990 to 2020. This is surprising. One might expect drug epidemics to be self-limiting, as policy and individual behavior reacts to observed deaths. We study why...
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups
Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites. We use estimates from three … empirical strategies -- two reduced-form, one structural -- to provide counterfactual simulations of between-group inequality …
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Human Capital Spillovers and Health : Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?
Bor, Jacob H.; Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....
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