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Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Breza, Emily; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Alsan, Marcella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses developed and recorded short video messages to encourage...

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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Ho, Lisa Y.; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...

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Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming production across all sectors of the economy, with the potential to both complement and substitute for traditional labor inputs. Healthcare is no exception. Dozens of recent academic studies demonstrate that AI can contribute to the healthcare value...

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Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation

Alsan, Marcella; Campbell, Romaine A.; Leister, Lukas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and disease-burden shares. We conducted a survey experiment in which respondents were shown a photo of a current NIH...

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The Economics of Medical Procedure Innovation

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig; Heard, R. Christopher; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing … code applications for emerging medical procedures, we highlight two mechanisms that could hinder innovation. First, the … administrative hurdle of securing permanent, reimbursable billing codes substantially delays innovation diffusion. We find that …

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