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Doing More with Less : Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness

Currie, Janet M.; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

mental health effectiveness predicts a 0.21 percentage point (3.8%) lower risk of patient death over the next three years and …

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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018

Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet M.; Bär, Marlies; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life expectancy in rich and poor U.S. areas and with...

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Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending?

Currie, Janet M.; Karpova, Anastasia; Zeltzer, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine the impact of the opening of a new urgent care center (UCC) on health care costs and the utilization of care among nearby Medicare beneficiaries. We focus on 2006-2016, a period of rapid UCC expansion. We find that total Medicare spending rises when residents of a zip code are first...

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Tackling the Substance Abuse Crisis : The Role of Access to Treatment Facilities

Corredor-Waldron, Adriana; Currie, Janet M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The continuing drug overdose crisis in the U.S. has highlighted the urgent need for greater access to treatment. This paper examines the impact of openings and closings of substance abuse treatment facilities in New Jersey on emergency room visits for substance abuse issues among nearby...

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The Covid-19 Baby Bump : The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic

Bailey, Martha J.; Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020, these declines appear to reflect reductions in travel...

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Administrative Burdens and Child Medicaid Enrollments

Arbogast, Iris; Chorniy, Anna; Currie, Janet M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Following decades of increasing child access to public health insurance, enrollments fell in many states between 2016 and 2019 and the number of uninsured children increased. This study provides the first national, quantitative assessment of the role of several common types of administrative...

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Mothers as Insurance : Family Spillovers in WIC

Bitler, Marianne; Currie, Janet M.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a widely used program. Previous research shows that WIC improves birth outcomes, but evidence about impacts on children and families is limited. We use a regression discontinuity leveraging an age five when...

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The Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing

Currie, Janet M.; Li, Anran; Schnell, Molly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We ask how competition influences the prescribing practices of physicians. Law changes granting nurse practitioners (NPs) the ability to prescribe controlled substances without physician collaboration or oversight generate exogenous variation in competition. In response, we find that general...

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The Hidden Cost of Firearm Violence on Pregnant Women and Their Infants

Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Hatch, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely unexplored consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn...

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Drivers of Racial Differences in C-Sections

Corredor-Waldron, Adriana; Currie, Janet M.; Schnell, Molly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

mothers. The gap is highest for mothers with the lowest risk and is reduced by only four percentage points when controlling … for observed medical risk factors, sociodemographic characteristics, hospital, and doctor or medical practice group … differences in unobserved medical risk--accounting for persistent racial disparities in delivery method. The additional C …

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