This study assesses the factors influencing the movement of
people across health plans. We distinguish three types of cost-related…
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these…
Building on an idea in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), this article investigates the application of synthetic control methods to comparative…
Book abstract: Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. The economics of…
Book abstract: Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever. From trade agreements…
The literature on the use of performance measurement in government has focused much attention on hypothesized unintended dysfunctional…
Americans purchase health insurance in various ways. Some buy individual policies. For them, medical underwriting is common, and…
Pharmaceutical expenditures have grown rapidly in recent decades, and now total nearly 10% of health care costs. Generic drug utilization…
Propensity score matching estimators (Rosenbaum and Rubin, 1983) are widely used in evaluation research to estimate average treatment…
Book abstract: Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally and at the same time deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures…