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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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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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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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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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Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare

Curto, Vilsa - 2017

We compare healthcare spending in public and private Medicare using newly available claims data from Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers. MA insurer revenues are 30 percent higher than their healthcare spending. Healthcare spending is 25 percent lower for MA enrollees than for enrollees in...

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Bunching at the Kink : Implications for Spending Responses to Health Insurance Contracts

Einav, Liran - 2016

A large literature in empirical public finance relies on "bunching" to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used counterfactually. We conduct this type of analysis in the context of prescription drug insurance for...

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Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care : Evidence from Patient Migration

Finkelstein, Amy - 2014

We study the drivers of geographic variation in US health care utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows us to account for demand differences driven by both observable and...

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