As a major public health crisis, the opioid epidemic caused over 556,000 deaths in the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. To control the epidemic…
There is a growing amount of evidence that machine learning (ML) algorithms can be used to develop accurate clinical risk scores for a wide…
A main research goal in various studies is to use an observational data set and provide a new set of counterfactual guidelines that can…
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality…
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this…
In various organizations including hospitals, individuals are not forced to follow specific assignments, and thus, deviations from…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
The U.S. healthcare system is undergoing a period of substantial change, with hospitals purchasing many physician practices (\vertical…
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800…
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or…