Browsing by Author "Cutler, David"

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    • Understanding Differences in Health Behaviors by Education 

      Cutler, David M.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana (Elsevier, 2010)
      Using a variety of data sets from two countries, we examine possible explanations for the relationship between education and health behaviors, known as the education gradient. We show that income, health insurance, and ...

    • Value of Medical Innovation in the United States: 1960-2000 

      Cutler, David; Rosen, Allison B.; Vijan, Sandeep (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2006)
      Background: The increased use of medical therapies has led to increased medical costs. To provide insight into the value of this increased spending, we compared gains in life expectancy with the increased costs of care ...

    • The Value of Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer 

      Romanus, Dorothy (2014-10-21)
      The goal of this dissertation was to examine the realized value of targeted therapies in routine care and to identify opportunities for improving the return on medical spending for these technologies. Chapter 1 investigated ...

    • Vitamin D deficiency in minority populations 

      Taksler, Glen B; Cutler, David M.; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Keating, Nancy Lynn (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)
      Objective Black and Hispanic individuals synthesize less vitamin D per unit of sun exposure than white individuals. The relationship between UV radiation and vitamin D insufficiency in minorities has not been well ...

    • Walking the Tightrope on Medicare Reform 

      Cutler, David (American Economic Association, 2000)
      A central controversy in the debate about Medicare is whether the program spends too much money or whether instead it should be expanded to cover more. I consider the value of increased Medicare spending. I argue that on ...

    • What Explains Differences in Smoking, Drinking, and Other Health Related Behaviors 

      Cutler, David; Glaeser, Edward (American Economic Association, 2005)
      We explore economic model of health behaviors. While the standard economic model of health as an investment is generally supported empirically, the ability of this model to explain heterogeneity across individuals is ...

    • When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation In the United States 

      Cutler, David; Glaeser, Edward; Vigdor, Jacob (Elsevier, 2008)
      Recent studies provide conflicting evidence on the connection between ethnic or racial neighborhood segregation and outcomes. Some studies find that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, ...

    • When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times 

      Cutler, David M.; Huang, Wei; Lleras-Muney, Adriana (Elsevier, 2014-12-08)
      Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self-reported health, life satisfaction, obesity, smoking and drinking. While this variation has been ...

    • Where Are the Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care 

      Cutler, David M. (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
      Medical care is characterized by enormous inefficiency. Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analyses of the industry suggest should occur. In other industries characterized by inefficiency, efficient firms ...

    • Who Benefits From Health System Change? 

      Cutler, David M. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2014)

    • Why Have Americans Become More Obese 

      Cutler, David; Glaeser, Edward; Shapiro, Jesse (American Economic Association, 2003)
      Americans have become considerably more obese over the past 25 years. This increase is primarily the result of consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations ...