E-cargo bike Dad, avid run-commuter. Health Economist and 30th Anniversary Assoc Prof @HMSHCP at @harvardmed and @nberpubs RA. Via @bu_economics and @BYUecon.
Jan 31, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
My controversial (and not sarcastic) opinion about real analysis and econ PhDs:
Real analysis shouldn't just be required for econ PhDs but for *all* college grads. Actually, make that *all high school grads*.
Hear me out. A thread on why:
First, I want to preface this to say that I am not a theorist and that my math skills are far below most economists.
But that does little to lessen this opinion.
Oct 26, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
"The Liquidity Sensitivity of Healthcare Consumption: Evidence from Social Security Payments"
joint w/ @talgross and Daniel Prinz (Who is on the job market! Hire him!)
A thread:
We study the effects of health insurance copayments on low-income households.
Typically, we think about copayments as counteracting moral hazard, or "over-consumption" of healthcare goods and services due to the subsidized prices under insurance.
Aug 31, 2020 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
"Are All Managed Care Plans Created Equal? Evidence from Random Plan Assignment in Medicaid"
nber.org/papers/w27762
Regulated competition between private health plans has become the dominant form of social health insurance in the US, with 69% of Medicaid beneficiaries in a managed care plan and in Medicare 33% in an MA plan and 100% in private Part D plans.
Nov 28, 2018 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
And now for your evening commmute 🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
New work with @AnupamBJena, @ml_barnett, and Tanner Hicks in @NEJM on age at school entry and diagnosis and treatment of ADHD out this evening.
Initiate thread.
Headline finding: Children born in August are 32% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than children born in September in states that have a 9/1 Kindergarten age cutoff.
[Initiate long but important MA upcoding thread]
Background: CMS pays MA plans fixed per person monthly payments. Payments are set using a risk adjustment model that bases an individual's payment on their expected cost in FFS. The model includes demographic categories as well as a large set of indicators for chronic cond'ns.
