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Working Papers

2024

1. Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

2. Do Higher-Priced Hospitals Deliver Higher-Quality Care?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2019

3. The price ain’t right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (41)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2015) View citations (13)
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2015) View citations (21)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (24)
   See also Journal Article The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2019) View citations (38) (2019)

2018

4. Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
5. Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals’ performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (17)
   Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2016) View citations (16)
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2016) View citations (11)
   See also Journal Article Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2018) View citations (22) (2018)

2017

6. Politics and Health Care Spending in the United States
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
7. Politics, Hospital Behavior, and Health Care Spending
   Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (2)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2017) View citations (2)
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2017) View citations (2)
8. Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2017) View citations (3)
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2017) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2020) View citations (10) (2020)

2012

9. Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals' Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (21)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2012) View citations (19)
10. Healthcare Reform: The US Policy Debate
    CEP US Election Analysis Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2012)

2011

11. Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (182)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2010) View citations (73)
    SERC Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2010) View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence From The English NHS Patient Choice Reforms, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2011) View citations (224) (2011)
12. In brief: Competition in the public sector: good for the goose, good for the gander?
    CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

2010

13. Does Hospital Competition Improve Efficiency? An Analysis of the Recent Market-Based Reforms to the English NHS
    CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (12)
    Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2010) View citations (11)
14. Health: higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library
15. The NHS White Paper: evolution or revolution?
    CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Journal Articles

2021

1. Physician agency, consumerism, and the consumption of lower-limb MRI scans
   Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 76, (C) View citations (4)

2020

2. Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States
   Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, (9), 3626 - 3677 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Surprise! Out-of-Network Billing for Emergency Care in the United States, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)

2019

3. The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134, (1), 51-107 View citations (38)
   See also Working Paper The price ain’t right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2019) View citations (41) (2019)

2018

4. Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service
   Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 166, (C), 63-80 View citations (22)
   See also Working Paper Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals’ performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2018) View citations (17) (2018)

2015

5. National Trends in Hospital Readmission Rates among Medicare Fee-for-Service Survivors of Mitral Valve Surgery, 1999–2010
   PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (7), 1-11

2013

6. Framing health reform
   Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2013, 8, (2), 251-257 View citations (1)

2011

7. Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence From The English NHS Patient Choice Reforms
   Economic Journal, 2011, 121, (554), F228-F260 View citations (224)
   See also Working Paper Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2011) View citations (182) (2011)

Chapters

2012

1. Choice in Health Care: Drivers and Consequences
   Chapter 5 in The LSE Companion to Health Policy, 2012