Research Objective
Coverage policy may be an important tool to reduce spending while discouraging low-value medical services. Government and private insurers may also differ in…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we develop a new measure of civilian crime…
Importance
Limited evidence is available concerning optimal seizure prophylaxis after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH).
Objective
To evaluate which of 4 seizure…
The labor of workers in the retail and food service sector – employed at grocery stores, fast food and casual dining restaurants, in hardware and electronics, in retail and…
During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, many health professionals used social media to promote preventative health behaviors. We conducted a randomized controlled…
Employment rates fell dramatically between March and April 2020 as the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic reverberated through the U.S. labor market. This paper uses data from…
Causal analyses typically focus on average treatment effects. Yet for substantive research on topics like inequality, interest extends to treatments’ distributional consequences.…
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear. New substitutes for older, more expensive…
Policy Points Policymakers at federal and state agencies, health systems, payers, and providers need rigorous evidence for strategies to improve health care delivery and…
Social distancing is critical to the control of COVID-19, which has disproportionately affected the Black community. Physician-delivered messages may increase adherence to these…