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The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Cutler, David M.; Stewart, Susan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...

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Selection Stories: Understanding Movement Across Health Plans

Cutler, David M.; Zeckhauser, Richard; Lincoln, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related transitions: adverse selection, the movement of the less healthy to more generous plans; adverse retention, the tendency for people to stay where they are when they...

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Public Policy for Health Care

Cutler, David M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

This paper reviews the public sector role in the provision of health care. A first role of the government is to use tax policy to correct externalities associated with individual behaviors. Estimates suggest that the external effects of many `sins' such as alcohol consumption are greater than...

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Market Failure in Small Group Health Insurance

Cutler, David M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

Typically, health insurance premiums depend at least in part on the previous costs of the insuring firm, a factor termed 'experience rating'. This link between health status and future premiums raises concerns of market failure, since it limits the ability of firms to insure the price at which...

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Why Is The Developed World Obese?

Cutler, David M.; Bleich, Sara; Murray, Christopher; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Obesity has risen dramatically in the past few decades. However, the relative contribution of energy intake and energy expenditure to rising obesity is not known. Moreover, the extent to which social and economic factors tip the energy balance is not well understood. In this longitudinal...

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Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

Cutler, David M.; Kremer, Michael; Singhal, Monica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in income for prime age men. This finding is robust to...

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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Cutler, David M.; Huckman, Robert S.; Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of … firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may … increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic firms underuse these inputs when entry is constrained. We assess these …

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The Incidence of Adverse Medical Outcomes Under Prospective Payments

Cutler, David M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper examines the effect of prospective payment for hospital care on adverse medical outcomes. In 1983, the federal government replaced its previous cost-based reimbursement method with a prospective payment system, where reimbursement depends only On the diagnosis of the patient....

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Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron; Cutler, David M.; Linn, Joshua; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The introduction of Medicare in 1965 was the single largest change in health insurance coverage in U.S. history. Many economists and commentators have conjectured that the introduction of Medicare may have also been an important impetus for the development of new drugs that are now commonly used...

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Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

Cutler, David M.; Skinner, Jonathan; Stern, Ariel Dora; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to Medicare expenditures at the Hospital Referral Region to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side factors...

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