Truth and relevance: How are we doing?
偶然经济学家的作家本周收到了Paperdine University的法学教授Paul Caron的报告。使用Google Analytics（Caron）发现，去年我们有130万页的浏览量（比上一年增加了36％）和858,000名访客（增加了37％）。感谢Paul的报告[…]帖子真相和相关性：我们好吗？首次出现在偶然的经济学家中。
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A few points of emphasis on Song, Cutler, Chernew
关于Wyden-Ryan型高级支持计划的后果，Song，Cutler和Chernew的Jama Paper引起了很多关注。但是，我没有看到任何人注意到以下两点：从相对于服务费用的医疗保险费用进行衡量的意义上，他们的9％的节省数字是一种低估的。自从Medicare […]帖子对歌曲的重视点上，Cutler，Chernew首次出现在偶然的经济学家身上。
Pharmaceutical innovation and longevity
I’ve been reading an interesting working paper by Frank Lichtenberg, entitled “Pharmaceutical innovation and longevity growth in 30 developing and high-income countries, 2000-2009“: We examine the impact of pharmaceutical innovation, as measured by the vintage of prescription drugs used, on longevit
Wyden/Ryan: white paper on their Medicare reform plan Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin continues his premium support series (accountability today), and reacts to the Wyden/Ryan proposal, Don looks at an outline for Euphemism free communication at EOL, Aaron provides three quick posts on Wyden/Ryan: one,
Malpractice risk, by physician specialty
A new paper in NEJM by Anupam Jena, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Amitabh Chandra illuminates many of the important aspects of malpractice risk: how it varies by specialty, how many claims lead to payments, the size of payments, the chance of a claim in a year and over a career, etc. Accordin
The effect of hospital market concentration on hospital prices [FAQ]
这是一个常见问题解答。请参阅其他其他人的常见问题解答索引。 Historical FTC and DOJ concern over hospital mergers Two posts cite literature that shows hospital concentration increases prices [1, 2] The effect of hospital mergers on prices Evidence from Oregon Evidence from California Evidence from Massachusetts A qualitative view
The net cost of Medicare Advantage
“An Economic History of Medicare Part C,” a new paper in The Milbank Quarterly by McGuire, Newhouse, and Sinaiko, is a tasty smorgasbord of background on Medicare Advantage, aka Medicare Part C.* I mean no disrespect for the authors or their work, but let’s just skip all the very nice detail in the
Managed care and hospital bargaining
以某种方式，Vivian Wu的Paper Manage Care与医院的价格讨价还价逃脱了我的注意，直到最近（2009年出版）。它充满了感兴趣的内容，我将在下面完成。首先，为了更好地了解本文的重点，这是摘要：研究表明，托管护理（MC）放慢了[…]邮政管理和医院谈判最初出现在附带经济学家上。
Part D and utilization/outcomes
在上个月的“阅读清单”中，我引用了Kaestner's和Khan最近的NBER Paper Medicare D部分及其对使用处方药的影响，使用其他医疗保健服务以及老年人健康的影响。我自己还没有读过那篇论文。今天，杰森·沙夫林（Jason Shafrin）总结了这一点，同时简要描述了其他相关的[…]第D部分和利用/结果的发现，首先出现在偶然的经济学家上。
In a comment to my review of Angrist’s and Pischke’s The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics squidy wrote “You may also want to check out the response to this paper by Liran Einav and Jon Levin. That paper is titled Empirical Industrial Organization: A Progress Report. In fact a paper by t
