We study spillover effects from the largest increase in Medicaid reimbursement rates in the history of the program for primary care services to behavioral health and healthcare outcomes; mental illness, substance use disorders, and tobacco product use. Much of the variation in Medicaid...

We develop a formal model to show how integration solves task allocation problems between organizations and test the predictions of the model, using a large and rich patient-level dataset on hospital discharges to nursing homes and home health care. As predicted by the theory, we find that...

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the consequences of job loss between the periods 1976-81 and 1986-91. He finds stability in the overall incidence of job separation, but a statistically significant increase in the incidence of involuntary job loss, relative to quits,...

Economic evaluation of medical interventions aims to aid decision makers to achieve the goal of efficient use of health care resources at a community level by quantifying the tradeoffs between resources for medical care and the resulting health outcomes. Ideally, these evaluations would lead to...

Objective: To estimate racial differences in mortality at 30 days and up to 2 years following a hospital admission for the elderly with common medical conditions. Data Sources: The Medicare Provider Analysis and Review file and the VA Patient Treatment File from 1998-2002 were used to extract...

We investigate whether the unemployment fueled by the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the United States has impacted population access to statin medications. Our empirical strategy relies on comparing statin sales between states where, given the occupational distribution of their workforce,...

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...