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Working Papers

2025

1. The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
   I4R Discussion Paper Series, The Institute for Replication (I4R)

2022

2. Online Reviews and Hospital Choices
   EAG Discussions Papers, Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
3. Price Spillovers and Specialization in health Care: The Case of Children's Hospitals
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

4. Owning the Agent: Hospital Influence on Physician Behaviors
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2020

5. Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Deterrence effects of antifraud and abuse enforcement in health care, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2021) View citations (3) (2021)

2019

6. Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services: The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2018

7. Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage, Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2023) (2023)
8. Who Pays in Pay for Performance? Evidence from Hospital Pricing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2017

9. It's a Cruel Summer: Household Responses to Reductions in Government Nutrition Assistance
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article It's a cruel summer: Household responses to reductions in government nutrition assistance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2017) View citations (1) (2017)

2015

10. What Can We Learn About the Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity in the Presence of Misreporting?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article What Can We Learn about the Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity in the Presence of Misreporting?, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2016) View citations (37) (2016)

2008

11. Advertising Intensity and Welfare in an Equilibrium Search Model
    CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington
    See also Journal Article Advertising intensity and welfare in an equilibrium search model, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
12. Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice
    CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington
    See also Journal Article Search costs and Medicare plan choice, Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2010) View citations (4) (2010)
13. Simulating Sequential Search Models with Genetic Algorithms: Analysis of Price Ceilings, Taxes, Advertising and Welfare
    CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2023

1. Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage
   Journal of Industrial Economics, 2023, 71, (1), 212-255
   See also Working Paper Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage, NBER Working Papers (2018) (2018)
2. Who Pays in Pay-for-Performance?
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9, (3), 435 - 460

2021

3. Deterrence effects of antifraud and abuse enforcement in health care
   Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 75, (C) View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (1) (2020)
4. Hospital Pricing Following Integration with Physician Practices
   Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 77, (C) View citations (5)

2020

5. Capacity constraints and time allocation in public health clinics
   Health Economics, 2020, 29, (3), 324-336 View citations (3)

2018

6. Quality disclosure and the timing of insurers’ adjustments: Evidence from medicare advantage
   Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, (C), 13-26 View citations (3)
7. Vertical Alignment Between Hospitals and Physicians as a Bargaining Response to Commercial Insurance Markets
   Review of Industrial Organization, 2018, 53, (1), 7-29 View citations (5)

2017

8. It's a cruel summer: Household responses to reductions in government nutrition assistance
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 143, (C), 45-57 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper It's a Cruel Summer: Household Responses to Reductions in Government Nutrition Assistance, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (1) (2017)
9. Supply-Side Responses to Public Quality Ratings: Evidence from Medicare Advantage
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3, (2), 140-164 View citations (8)
   Also in American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3, (2), 140-164 (2017) View citations (8)

2016

10. Advertising intensity and welfare in an equilibrium search model
    Economics Letters, 2016, 141, (C), 20-26 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Advertising Intensity and Welfare in an Equilibrium Search Model, CAEPR Working Papers (2008) (2008)
11. Eliminating composite bias in treatment effects estimates: Applications to quality of life assessment
    Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, (C), 47-58
12. What Can We Learn about the Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity in the Presence of Misreporting?
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (4), 997-1017 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper What Can We Learn About the Effects of Food Stamps on Obesity in the Presence of Misreporting?, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (6) (2015)

2015

13. Bounding treatment effects: A command for the partial identification of the average treatment effect with endogenous and misreported treatment assignment
    Stata Journal, 2015, 15, (2), 411-436 View citations (15)
14. Putting the Patient in Patient Reported Outcomes: A Robust Methodology for Health Outcomes Assessment
    Health Economics, 2015, 24, (12), 1588-1603 View citations (2)
15. The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments
    Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50, (4), 980-1008 View citations (23)

2014

16. The bmte command: Methods for the estimation of treatment effects when exclusion restrictions are unavailable
    Stata Journal, 2014, 14, (3), 670-683 View citations (11)

2010

17. Search costs and Medicare plan choice
    Health Economics, 2010, 19, (10), 1142-1165 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Search Costs and Medicare Plan Choice, CAEPR Working Papers (2008) (2008)

Chapters

2011

1. On the Estimation of Selection Models when Participation is Endogenous and Misclassified
   A chapter in Missing Data Methods: Cross-sectional Methods and Applications, 2011, pp 179-207

2010

2. Chapter 10 A Survey on the Economics of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
   A chapter in Current Issues in Health Economics, 2010, pp 201-241

2009

3. Chapter 5 The GFT Utility Function
   A chapter in Quantifying Consumer Preferences, 2009, pp 119-147