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What Drives Risky Prescription Opioid Use? Evidence from Migration

Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Li, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate the role of person- and place-specific factors in the opioid epidemic by developing and estimating a dynamic model of risky prescription opioid use. We estimate the model using the relationship between cross-state migration and risky use among adults receiving federal disability...

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Economic Policy Uncertainty and the Credit Channel : Aggregate and Bank Level U.S. Evidence over Several Decades

Bordo, Michael D. - 2016

Economic policy uncertainty affects decisions of households, businesses, policy makers and Financial intermediaries. We first examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty on aggregate bank credit growth. Then we analyze commercial bank entity level data to gauge the effects of policy...

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Out of the Woodwork : Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Sacarny, Adam - 2020

We analyze the impact of expanded adult Medicaid eligibility on the Medicaid enrollment of already-eligible children … for the chance to apply for Medicaid. Children in these households were eligible for Medicaid irrespective of whether the … household won the lottery. We estimate statistically significant but transitory impacts of adult lottery selection on children …

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Testing for Asymmetric Information Using 'Unused Observables' in Insurance Markets : Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

Finkelstein, Amy - 2006

This paper tests for asymmetric information in the U.K. annuity market of the 1990s by trying to identify 'unused observables,' attributes of individual insurance buyers that are correlated both with subsequent claims experience and with insurance demand but that insurance companies did not use...

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Legal-Political Factors and the Historical Evolution of the Finance-Growth Link

Bordo, Michael D. - 2006

Recent cross-country investigations of the role of institutional fundamentals such as the protection of property rights in promoting financial development have extended a literature that has for decades maintained that financial factors can affect real outcomes. In this paper we pursue this new...

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The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance : Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

Finkelstein, Amy - 2005

This paper investigates the effects of market-wide changes in health insurance by examining the single largest change in health insurance coverage in American history: the introduction of Medicare in 1965. I estimate that the impact of Medicare on hospital spending is substantially larger than...

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Dynamic Inefficiencies in Insurance Markets : Evidence from long-term care insurance

Finkelstein, Amy - 2005

We examine whether unregulated, private insurance markets efficiently provide insurance against reclassification risk (the risk of becoming a bad risk and facing higher premiums). To do so, we examine the ex-post risk type of individuals who drop their long-term care insurance contracts relative...

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Private Information and its Effect on Market Equilibrium : New Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance

Finkelstein, Amy - 2003

This paper examines the standard test for asymmetric information in insurance markets: that its presence will result in a positive correlation between insurance coverage and risk occurrence. We show empirically that while there is no evidence of this positive correlation in the long-term care...

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Money, Sticky Wages, and the Great Depression

Bordo, Michael D. - 1997

This paper examines the ability of a simple stylized general equilibrium model that incorporates nominal wage rigidity to explain the magnitude and persistence of the Great Depression in the United States. The impulses to our analysis are money supply shocks. The Taylor contracts model is...

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Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs : Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals

Einav, Liran - 2017

We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting - a high-stakes but under-studied segment of the healthcare system. We focus on long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and the large (approximately $13,000) jump in Medicare payments they receive when a patient's stay reaches a...

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