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A taste of their own medicine: guideline adherence and access to expertise

Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, Petra; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2021

We use population administrative data from Sweden to study adherence to 63 medication-related guidelines. We compare the adherence of patients without personal access to medical expertise to the adherence of those with access, namely doctors and their close relatives. We estimate that, among...

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A taste of their own medicine : guideline adherence and access to expertise

Finkelstein, Amy; Persson, Petra; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2021

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Geographic Variation in Healthcare Utilization : The Role of Physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of physicians in driving geographic variation of US healthcare utilization. We estimate a model that … separates variation in average utilization of Medicare beneficiaries due to physicians, non-physician supply side factors, and … patient demand. The model is identified by migration of patients and physicians across areas, as well as by variation in …

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Minimum Standards and Insurance Regulation: Evidence from the Medigap Market

Finkelstein, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper examines the consequences of imposing binding minimum standards on the market for voluntary private health insurance for the elderly. Theoretically, the effect of these standards on insurance coverage and on welfare is ambiguous. I find robust evidence of a substantial decline in...

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

Finkelstein, Amy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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What Did Medicare Do (And Was It Worth It)?

Finkelstein, Amy; McKnight, Robin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We study the impact of the introduction of one of the major pillars of the social insurance system in the United States: the introduction of Medicare in 1965. Our results suggest that, in its first 10 years, the establishment of universal health insurance for the elderly had no discernible...

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Geographic variation in healthcare utilization : the role of physicians

Badinski, Ivan; Finkelstein, Amy; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; … - 2023

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Heterogeneity in damages from a pandemic

Finkelstein, Amy; Kocks, Geoffrey; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2022

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Heterogeneity in Damages from a Pandemic

Finkelstein, Amy; Kocks, Geoffrey; Polyakova, Maria; … - 2022

We use linked survey and administrative data to document and decompose the striking differences across demographic groups in both economic and health impacts of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The impacts of the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were...

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Beyond statistics : the economic content of risk scores

Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Kluender, Raymond; … - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 8 (2016) 2, pp. 195-224

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