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Patient cost-sharing, hospitalization offsets, and the design of optimal health insurance for the elderly

Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin - 2007

price sensitivity appears to greatly exceed that of the famous RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE). Moreover, unlike the … insurance should be tied to underlying health status, with chronically ill patients facing lower cost-sharing. We also conclude … that the externalities to Medicare from supplemental insurance coverage may be more modest than previously suggested due to …

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Identifying provider prejudice in healthcare

Chandra, Amitabh; Staiger, Douglas - 2010

"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using...

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Technology growth and expenditure growth in health care

Chandra, Amitabh; Skinner, Jonathan - 2011

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The effect of malpractice liability on the delivery of health care

Baicker, Katherine; Chandra, Amitabh - 2004

.S. along two dimensions. If growth in malpractice payments results in higher malpractice insurance premiums for physicians …

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Testing a Roy model with productivity spillovers : evidence from the treatment of heart attacks

Chandra, Amitabh; Staiger, Douglas - 2004

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Geography and racial health disparities

Chandra, Amitabh; Skinner, Jonathan - 2003

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Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare

Chandra, Amitabh - 2010

We use simple economic insights to develop a framework for distinguishing between prejudice and statistical discrimination using observational data. We focus our inquiry on the enormous literature in healthcare where treatment disparities by race and gender are not explained by access,...

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Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector

Chandra, Amitabh - 2018

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers. However, we find robust evidence across a variety of conditions and performance measures that higher...

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Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

Chandra, Amitabh; Kakani, Pragya; Sacarny, Adam - 2021

We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks – a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is highly effective, and...

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Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers : Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

Chandra, Amitabh; Staiger, Douglas - 2021

Productivity spillovers are often cited as a reason for geographic specialization in production. A large literature in medicine documents specialization across areas in the use of surgical treatments, which is unrelated to patient outcomes. We show that a simple Roy model of patient treatment...

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