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Working Papers

2024

1. A Flexible, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Difference-in-Differences Estimator for Repeated Cross-Sections
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

2. The Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation and Retransformed Marginal Effects
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
   See also Journal Article The inverse hyperbolic sine transformation and retransformed marginal effects, Stata Journal, StataCorp LLC (2022) View citations (20) (2022)
3. Why Transform Y? A Critical Assessment of Dependent-Variable Transformations in Regression Models for Skewed and Sometimes-Zero Outcomes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (30)

2021

4. Life Satisfaction and Body Mass Index: Estimating the Monetary Value of Achieving Optimal Body Weight
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Life satisfaction and body mass index: estimating the monetary value of achieving optimal body weight, Review of Economics of the Household, Springer (2023) View citations (3) (2023)
5. The Causal Effect of Depression and Anxiety on Life Satisfaction: An Instrumental Variable Approach
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2020

6. Moneyball in Medicare: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
7. Sibling Correlation in Educational Attainment: A Test of Genetic Nurture
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)

2019

8. Do Report Cards Predict Future Quality? The Case of Skilled Nursing Facilities
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Do report cards predict future quality? The case of skilled nursing facilities, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2019) View citations (7) (2019)

2018

9. Testing for Peer Effects Using Genetic Data
   Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (10)

2017

10. Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes?, American Journal of Health Economics, University of Chicago Press (2018) View citations (6) (2018)
11. Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
12. The challenges of public financing and organisation of long-term care
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article The Challenges of Public Financing and Organisation of Long‐Term Care, Fiscal Studies, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2017) View citations (3) (2017)
13. Valuing Pain using the Subjective Well-being Method
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Valuing pain using the subjective well-being method, Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier (2020) View citations (13) (2020)

2016

14. Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2017) View citations (17) (2017)
15. Do Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities Provide Better Post-Acute Care Quality?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article Do hospital-owned skilled nursing facilities provide better post-acute care quality?, Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (12) (2016)
16. Moneyball in Medicare
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Moneyball in Medicare, American Journal of Health Economics, University of Chicago Press (2023) (2023)
17. Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2016) View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?, American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press (2018) View citations (9) (2018)

2013

18. Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Informal Care and Caregiver's Health, Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2015) View citations (34) (2015)
19. Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (38)
    See also Journal Article Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter (2013) View citations (38) (2013)

2012

20. Log Odds and Ends
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

2011

21. Extending Regression Discontinuity Models Beyond the Jump Point
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

2010

22. Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Estimation of a dynamic model of weight, Empirical Economics, Springer (2012) View citations (10) (2012)

2009

23. Direct and Indirect Effects of Teenage Body Weight on Adult Wages
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2007

24. Genetic Information, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes, Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2008) View citations (79) (2008)

2006

25. A Semiparametric Derivative Estimator in Log Transformation Models
    Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article A semiparametric derivative estimator in log transformation models, Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society (2008) View citations (9) (2008)

2004

26. Prescription Drugs, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Monetary values of changes in Body Mass Index: do spouses play a role?
   Review of Economics of the Household, 2024, 22, (4), 1623-1654
2. The Division of Labour Within the Household and Life Satisfaction
   Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024, 25, (6), 1-22
3. Why Transform Y? The Pitfalls of Transformed Regressions with a Mass at Zero
   Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86, (2), 417-447 View citations (10)

2023

4. Genetic nurture in educational attainment
   Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, (C) View citations (2)
5. Life satisfaction and body mass index: estimating the monetary value of achieving optimal body weight
   Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21, (4), 1215-1246 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Life Satisfaction and Body Mass Index: Estimating the Monetary Value of Achieving Optimal Body Weight, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
6. Moneyball in Medicare
   American Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 9, (1), 96 - 126
   Also in Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 61, (C), 259-273 (2018) View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Moneyball in Medicare, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
7. The relationship between physical activity, cognitive function and health care use: A mediation analysis
   Social Science & Medicine, 2023, 335, (C)

2022

8. Hospital‐physician integration and risk‐coding intensity
   Health Economics, 2022, 31, (7), 1423-1437
9. Medicare’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Values Quality over QALYs
   Medical Decision Making, 2022, 42, (1), 51-59
10. The inverse hyperbolic sine transformation and retransformed marginal effects
    Stata Journal, 2022, 22, (3), 702-712 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper The Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation and Retransformed Marginal Effects, NBER Working Papers (2022) View citations (20) (2022)

2021

11. Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors
    Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 43, (C)

2020

12. Valuing pain using the subjective well-being method
    Economics & Human Biology, 2020, 37, (C) View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Valuing Pain using the Subjective Well-being Method, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (4) (2017)

2019

13. Do report cards predict future quality? The case of skilled nursing facilities
    Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, (C), 208-221 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Do Report Cards Predict Future Quality? The Case of Skilled Nursing Facilities, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (8) (2019)
14. Stata tip 134: Multiplicative and marginal interaction effects in nonlinear models
    Stata Journal, 2019, 19, (4), 1015-1020 View citations (4)
15. Testing for family influences on obesity: The role of genetic nurture
    Health Economics, 2019, 28, (7), 937-952 View citations (14)

2018

16. Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes?
    American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (4), 411-432 View citations (6)
    Also in American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (4), 411-432 (2018) View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Are Recessions Good for Staffing in Nursing Homes?, NBER Working Papers (2017) (2017)
17. Does past unemployment experience explain the transition happiness gap?
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, (4), 1104-1121 View citations (1)
    Also in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, (3), 736-753 (2018) View citations (1)
18. Long‐term care and pay‐for‐performance programs
    Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22, (3), 1005-1021
19. Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?
    American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (1), 1-25 View citations (9)
    Also in American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4, (1), 1-25 (2018) View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper Tobacco Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: How Should We Value Foregone Consumer Surplus?, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (4) (2016)

2017

20. Delayed Discharges and Hospital Type: Evidence from the English NHS
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 495-519 View citations (9)
21. Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 25, 350-383 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)
    Software Item Code and data files for "Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle", Computer Codes (2017) (2017)
22. Does the Expansion of Public Long‐Term Care Funding Affect Saving Behaviour?
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 417-443 View citations (10)
23. Editors' introduction
    Health Economics, 2017, 26, (9), 1092-1092
24. Home Sweet Home? Public Financing and Inequalities in the Use of Home Care Services in Europe
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 445-468 View citations (16)
25. How Home Health Agencies’ Ownership Affects Practice Patterns
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 469-493 View citations (1)
26. How to Finance the Rising Costs of Long‐Term Care: Four Alternatives for the Netherlands
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 369-391 View citations (6)
27. Indirect Fiscal Effects of Long‐Term Care Insurance-super-
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 393-415
28. Issue Information
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 359-362
29. Long-Term Care Reforms in OECD Countries. Cristiano Gori, Jose-Luis Fernandez and Raphael Wittenberg (Eds.) Policy Press, 2016, ISBN: 978 144731 071 6, 306 pages
    Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2017, 16, (2), 266-267
30. The Challenges of Public Financing and Organisation of Long‐Term Care
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 365-368 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper The challenges of public financing and organisation of long-term care, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2017) View citations (3) (2017)
31. Title Page
    Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38, 363-363

2016

32. Do hospital-owned skilled nursing facilities provide better post-acute care quality?
    Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, (C), 36-46 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Do Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities Provide Better Post-Acute Care Quality?, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (12) (2016)
33. The Impact of Social Health Insurance on Household Fertility Decisions
    Journal of African Economies, 2016, 25, (5), 699-717 View citations (2)

2015

34. Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
    Health Economics, 2015, 24, (2), 224-237 View citations (34)
    See also Working Paper Informal Care and Caregiver's Health, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (4) (2013)
35. Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented
    Health Economics, 2015, 24, (S1), 118-131 View citations (7)
36. twopm: Two-part models
    Stata Journal, 2015, 15, (1), 3-20 View citations (88)

2014

37. The effect of social health insurance on prenatal care: the case of Ghana
    International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2014, 14, (4), 385-406 View citations (9)

2013

38. Computing adjusted risk ratios and risk differences in Stata
    Stata Journal, 2013, 13, (3), 492-509 View citations (8)
39. Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2013, 14, (2), 377-400 View citations (38)
    See also Working Paper Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (38) (2013)

2012

40. Do consumers respond to publicly reported quality information? Evidence from nursing homes
    Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31, (1), 50-61 View citations (37)
41. Estimation of a dynamic model of weight
    Empirical Economics, 2012, 42, (2), 413-443 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight, NBER Working Papers (2010) View citations (3) (2010)

2011

42. Direct and indirect effects of body weight on adult wages
    Economics & Human Biology, 2011, 9, (4), 381-392 View citations (37)
43. Mind the information gap: fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan
    Health Economics Review, 2011, 1, (1), 1-15
44. The validity of genes related to neurotransmitters as instrumental variables
    Health Economics, 2011, 20, (8), 884-888 View citations (37)
45. William H. Greene and David A. Hensher, Modeling ordered choices: A primer, Cambridge University Press (2010)
    International Review of Economics & Finance, 2011, 20, (4), 850-851

2010

46. Alcohol consumption and body weight
    Health Economics, 2010, 19, (7), 814-832 View citations (25)

2009

47. Health Insurance, Medical Care, and Health Outcomes: A Model of Elderly Health Dynamics
    Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44, (1) View citations (28)
48. Obesity and labor market outcomes among legal immigrants to the United States from developing countries
    Economics & Human Biology, 2009, 7, (2), 153-164 View citations (23)
49. Proximity to death and participation in the long‐term care market
    Health Economics, 2009, 18, (8), 867-883 View citations (28)
50. Weight and wages: fat versus lean paychecks
    Health Economics, 2009, 18, (5), 535-548 View citations (98)
51. Why have physical activity levels declined among Chinese adults? Findings from the 1991-2006 China health and nutrition surveys
    Social Science & Medicine, 2009, 68, (7), 1305-1314 View citations (26)

2008

52. A semiparametric derivative estimator in log transformation models
    Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11, (3), 538-553 View citations (9)
    See also Working Paper A Semiparametric Derivative Estimator in Log Transformation Models, Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers (2006) View citations (4) (2006)
53. Genetic information, obesity, and labor market outcomes
    Health Economics, 2008, 17, (9), 1089-1104 View citations (79)
    See also Working Paper Genetic Information, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes, Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers (2007) View citations (7) (2007)
54. Informal and formal care for elderly persons: How adult children's characteristics affect the use of formal care in Japan
    Social Science & Medicine, 2008, 67, (6), 1002-1008 View citations (38)
55. Informal care and Medicare expenditures: Testing for heterogeneous treatment effects
    Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27, (1), 134-156 View citations (71)

2007

56. The Effect of Advertising on Pharmaceutical Innovation
    Review of Industrial Organization, 2007, 31, (3), 221-236 View citations (4)

2006

57. Behavioral Implications of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditures
    Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 2006, 142, (V), 3-11 View citations (3)
58. Economic Effects of Informal Care
    Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), 2006, 142, (V), 13-22 View citations (5)
59. Inter‐vivos Transfers and Exchange
    Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 73, (1), 157-172 View citations (5)
60. Mechanisms through which drug, sex partner, and friendship network characteristics relate to risky needle use among high risk youth and young adults
    Social Science & Medicine, 2006, 63, (9), 2489-2499 View citations (2)
61. Medicare payment changes and nursing home quality: effects on long-stay residents
    International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2006, 6, (3), 173-189 View citations (12)
62. OBRA 1987 and the quality of nursing home care
    International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2006, 6, (1), 49-81
63. Transitions between the public mental health system and jail for persons with severe mental illness: a Markov analysis
    Health Economics, 2006, 15, (7), 719-733 View citations (2)

2004

64. Computing interaction effects and standard errors in logit and probit models
    Stata Journal, 2004, 4, (2), 154-167 View citations (757)
65. Effect of drive-through delivery laws on postpartum length of stay and hospital charges
    Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, (1), 129-155 View citations (12)
66. Effects of WIC Participation on Children's Use of Oral Health Services
    American Journal of Public Health, 2004, 94, (5), 772-777 View citations (4)
67. Informal care and health care use of older adults
    Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23, (6), 1159-1180 View citations (278)
68. Time to include time to death? The future of health care expenditure predictions
    Health Economics, 2004, 13, (4), 315-327 View citations (102)

2003

69. How measures of perception from survey data lead to inconsistent regression results: evidence from adolescent and peer substance use
    Health Economics, 2003, 12, (2), 139-148 View citations (18)
70. Interaction terms in logit and probit models
    Economics Letters, 2003, 80, (1), 123-129 View citations (2618)
71. Longevity and Health Care Expenditures
    The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2003, 58, (1), S2-S10 View citations (57)

2002

72. Do Medicare HMOs still reduce health services use after controlling for selection bias?
    Health Economics, 2002, 11, (4), 323-340 View citations (41)
73. Does prospective payment reduce inpatient length of stay?
    Health Economics, 2002, 11, (5), 377-387 View citations (24)
74. Provider Selection, Bargaining, and Utilization Management in Managed Care
    Economic Inquiry, 2002, 40, (3), 348-365 View citations (6)

2001

75. China's one-child policy: the economic choices and consequences faced by pregnant women
    Social Science & Medicine, 2001, 52, (5), 745-761 View citations (7)

2000

76. Revisiting Rogowski and Newhouse on the indirect costs of teaching: a note on functional form and retransformation in Medicare's payment formulas
    Journal of Health Economics, 2000, 19, (6), 1027-1046 View citations (4)
77. Standard errors for the retransformation problem with heteroscedasticity
    Journal of Health Economics, 2000, 19, (5), 697-718 View citations (22)

1998

78. Controlling for the endogeneity of peer substance use on adolescent alcohol and tobacco use
    Health Economics, 1998, 7, (5), 439-453 View citations (82)

1997

79. Adverse Selection, Bequests, Crowding Out, and Private Demand for Insurance: Evidence from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1997, 15, (3), 201-19 View citations (131)

1995

80. ELDERLY ASSETS, MEDICAID POLICY, AND SPEND‐DOWN IN NURSING HOMES
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1995, 41, (3), 309-329 View citations (36)

1994

81. How Hospital Ownership Affects Access to Care for the Uninsured
    RAND Journal of Economics, 1994, 25, (1), 171-185 View citations (62)

1992

82. Incentive regulation of nursing homes
    Journal of Health Economics, 1992, 11, (2), 105-128 View citations (29)

Chapters

2016

1. Health and Long-Term Care
   Elsevier View citations (12)

2013

2. nursing homes
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (9)

2012

3. Informal Care
   Chapter 30 in The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition, 2012 View citations (14)
4. Nursing Home Quality of Care
   Chapter 29 in The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition, 2012 View citations (2)
   Also in Chapter 28 in The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, 2006 (2006)

2000

5. Long-term care
   Chapter 17 in Handbook of Health Economics, 2000, vol. 1, pp 955-994 View citations (105)

1992

6. Incentive Regulation of Nursing Homes: Specification Tests of the Markov Model
   A chapter in Topics in the Economics of Aging, 1992, pp 275-304 View citations (13)

Software Items

2017

1. Code and data files for "Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle"
   Computer Codes, Review of Economic Dynamics
   See also Journal Article Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Dynamic Effects of Human and Health Capital on Wages over the Life Cycle, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2017) View citations (17) (2017)