Browsing by Author "Cutler, David"
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The ACO Rules — Striking the Balance between Participation and Transformative Potential
Rosenthal, Meredith B.; Cutler, David M.; Feder, Judith (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2011) -
Association Between the Medicare Hospice Benefit and Health Care Utilization and Costs for Patients With Poor-Prognosis Cancer
Obermeyer, Ziad; Makar, Maggie; Abujaber, Samer; Dominici, Francesca; Block, Susan Dale; Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2014)Importance More patients with cancer use hospice currently than ever before, but there are indications that care intensity outside of hospice is increasing, and length of hospice stay decreasing. Uncertainties regarding ... -
Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David (American Economic Association, 2005)Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and ... -
The Birth and Growth of the Social Insurance State: Explaining Old-Age and Medical Insurance Across Countries
Cutler, David; Johnson, Richard (Springer Verlag, 2004)We seek to explain why countries have adopted national Old-Age Insurance and Health Insurance programs. Theoretical work has posited several factors that could lead to this adoption: the strain from expanding capitalism; ... -
Campaign Wars: Health Policy in a Fantasy World
Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2016)National health reform debates reminds me of a night at the movies. On the one hand, there are true-life stories like “Apollo 13,” that profile actual people and the problems they face. And then there are the fantasies, ... -
Changes in the Incidence and Duration of Periods Without Insurance
Cutler, David M.; Gelber, Alexander M. (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)BACKGROUND: Policymakers have recently proposed ways of providing health care coverage for an increased number of uninsured persons. However, there are few data that show how the incidence and duration of periods in which ... -
Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance
Chernew, Michael; Cutler, David; Keenan, Patricia (American Economic Association, 2005) -
Comparison of Trends in US Health-Related Quality of Life Over the 2000s Using the SF-6D, HALex, EQ-5D, and EQ-5D Visual Analog Scale Versus a Broader Set of Symptoms and Impairments
Stewart, Susan T.; Cutler, David M.; Rosen, Allison B. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)BACKGROUND: A number of instruments have been developed to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL), differing in the health domains covered and their scoring. Although few such measures have been consistently included ... -
The Costs of Conflict Resolution and Financial Distress: Evidence from the Texaco-Pennzoil Litigation
Cutler, David; Summers, Lawrence H. (Rand Journal of Economics, 1988)This article demonstrates that the dispute between Texaco and Pennzoil over the Getty Oil takeover reduced the combined wealth of the claimants on the two companies by over $3 billion. During the course of the litigation, ... -
Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices
Cutler, David M.; Dafny, Leemore (New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS), 2011) -
The Determinants of Mortality
Cutler, David; Deaton, Angus; Lleras-Muney, Adriana (American Economic Association, 2006)The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real incomes was accompanied by a historically ... -
Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Acemoglu, Daron; Cutler, David; Finkelstein, Amy; Linn, Joshua (American Economic Association, 2006)The introduction of Medicare in 1965 was the single largest change in health insurance coverage in U.S. history. Many economists and commentators have conjectured that the introduction of Medicare may have also been an ... -
Early-Life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David M.; Fung, Winnie; Kremer, Michael R.; Singhal, Monica; Vogl, Tom (American Economic Association, 2010)We examine the effects of exposure to malaria in early childhood on educational attainment and economic status in adulthood by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication ... -
Emergency Department Profits Are Likely To Continue As The Affordable Care Act Expands Coverage
Wilson, Michael; Cutler, David M. (Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2014)To better understand the financial viability of hospital emergency departments (EDs), we created national estimates of the cost to hospitals of providing ED care and the associated hospital revenue using hospital financial ... -
Enrollee Mix, Treatment Intensity, and Cost in Competing Indemnity and HMO Plans
Cutler, David; Altman, Daniel; Zeckhauser, Richard J. (Elsevier, 2003)Why do indemnity insurance plans cost substantially more per capita—77% more in our study—than HMOs? We answer this question using data from a large organization’s insurance pool, covering 215,000 lives. We decompose cost ... -
Equality, Efficiency, and Market Fundamentals: The Dynamics of International Medical Care Reform.
Cutler, David (American Economic Association, 2002)Public opinion surveys uniformly show low support for medical-care systems in developed countries. The longstanding conflict between equal access to care and efficient service provision partly explains this dissatisfaction. ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Dette, Tilman C. (2016-05-11)This thesis combines three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay studies hospital responses to price changes and the introduction of DRG reimbursements; using a large administrative data set on all inpatient ... -
Essays in Health Economics
Blauth, Johann (2014-06-06)This dissertation explores situational differences in physician behavior based on detailed electronic hospital records, shedding light on previously unobservable determinants of treatment decisions and processes. -
Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors
Friedman, Abigail Sarah (2014-06-06)This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between adverse events ... -
Essays in Public Economics
Gottlieb, Joshua (2013-02-19)Chapter 1 investigates whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply, technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the geographic regions across which it ...