Browsing by Author "Cutler, David"

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    • Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology 

      Stern, Ariel Dora (2014-06-06)
      The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ...

    • Essays on Provider Behavior in Health Care Markets 

      Fiedler, Matthew Aaron (2013-10-18)
      This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the determinants of hospital and physician decisions and the consequences of those decisions for social welfare.

    • Essays on Public and Labor Economics 

      Sullivan, Daniel McArthur (2016-05-14)
      Chapter 1 presents evidence that current economics research significantly underestimates the effects of air pollution, regardless of the outcome of interest. This bias exists even in quasi-experimental estimates and arises ...

    • Essays on Public Health Insurance 

      Wettstein, Gal (2016-04-26)
      Over the last ten years there have been dramatic changes in the health insurance environment in the United States, spurred on by broad reforms in the public health insurance sector. In 2006 the Medicare Prescription Drug, ...

    • Essays on Public Outcomes Reporting and Technology Adoption in Health Care 

      Wang, Thomas Dean (2013-02-08)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on hospital-based healthcare delivery. The first essay examines the effect of public reporting of hospital-level surgical mortality rates on patient outcomes in the context of ...

    • Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes, and Aging: Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s 

      Cutler, David; Knaul, Felicia; Lozano, Rafael; Mendez, Oscar; Zurita, Beatriz (Elsevier, 2002)
      We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico in the past two decades, the most recent in 1995–96. We find that mortality rates for the very young and ...

    • Five Essays on Labor and Public Economics 

      Huang, Wei (2016-05-09)
      It is important to understand the individual behavioral responses to public policies and the corresponding social consequences because they are key parameters to evaluate and design efficient social policies. In this ...

    • Forecasting the Effects of Obesity and Smoking on U.S. Life Expectancy 

      Stewart, Susan T.; Cutler, David M.; Rosen, Allison B. (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
      Background: While increases in obesity over the past 30 years have adversely affected population health, there have been concomitant improvements due to reductions in smoking. Better understanding of the joint effects of ...

    • From the Affordable Care Act to Affordable Care 

      Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2015)
      Health reform is a process, not a destination. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not be the last word in health policy any more than were Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA focused primarily on extending insurance coverage. ...

    • Health Care Spending — A Giant Slain or Sleeping? 

      Hamel, Mary Elizabeth; Blumenthal, David; Stremikis, Kristof; Cutler, David M. (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2013)

    • Hospitals, Market Share, and Consolidation 

      Cutler, David M.; Scott Morton, Fiona (American Medical Association (AMA), 2013)

    • How Does Managed Care Do It? 

      McClellan, Mark; Cutler, David; Newhous, Joseph P. (Rand Journal of Economics, 2000)
      Integrating the health services and insurance industries, as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) do, could lower expenditure by reducing either the quantity of services or unit price or both. We compare the treatment ...

    • Incidence and Mortality of Hip Fractures in the United States 

      Brauer, Carmen A.; Cutler, David M.; Coca-Perraillon, Marcelo (American Medical Association (AMA), 2009)
      Context: Understanding the incidence and subsequent mortality following hip fracture is essential to measuring population health and the value of improvements in health care. Objective: To examine trends in hip fracture ...

    • Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Health Insurance Coverage 

      Cutler, David; Chernew, Michael; Keenan, Patricia S. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
      Objective. To determine the impact of rising health insurance premiums on coverage rates. Data Sources & Study Setting. Our analysis is based on two cohorts of nonelderly Americans residing in 64 large metropolitan ...

    • Infectious Diseases and Economic Development 

      Alsan, Marcella Mousavi (2013-02-22)
      This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how disease (particularly communicable disease) and development interact. The first chapter explores how TseTse-transmitted Trypanosomiasis influenced African development. ...

    • Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery 

      Cutler, David M.; Huckman, Robert Steven; Kolstad, Jonathan T. (American Economic Association, 2010)
      Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, ...

    • Insurers Again at Odds With Hospitals and Physicians 

      Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2015)

    • Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation. 

      Cutler, David; Glaeser, Edward; Vigdor, Jacob L. (The MIT Press, 2008)
      This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the ...

    • Labor Market Responses to Rising Health Insurance Costs 

      Cutler, David; Madrian, Brigitte (RAND Corporation/Wiley-Blackwell, 1998)
      Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either in lower wages, changes in the composition of employment, or both. Despite a presumption that most of this effect will be ...

    • The Lifetime Costs and Benefits of Medical Technology 

      Cutler, David (Elsevier, 2007)
      Measuring the lifetime costs and benefits of medical technologies is essential in evaluating technological change and determining the productivity of medical care. Using data on Medicare beneficiaries with a heart attack ...