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Research Briefs·Sep 4, 2024

Managing Margins: PE Effects on Financial, Physical, and Human Capital

Michael R. Richards, Maggie Shi, and Christopher M. Whaley
Private equity’s influence on hospital performance includes permanent improvements in hospital patient volumes and revenues, reductions in full-time employees, restrained...
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·Jul 25, 2024

Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Lev R. Klarnet, Ithai Lurie, and Corbin L. Miller
Rising health care prices are passed onto employers as higher insurance premiums, which decreases their demand for labor and reduces...
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·May 13, 2024

Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Zack Cooper, Stuart V. Craig, Stuart V. Craig, and Lev Klarnet
Twenty percent of US hospital mergers that occurred between 2002 and 2020 could have been predicted to lessen competition using...
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·Oct 3, 2023

Private Actions in the Presence of Externalities: The Health Impacts of Reducing Air Pollution Peaks but not Ambient Exposure

Joshua Dean and Susanna B. Berkouwer
Improved cookstoves reduce exposure to peak cooking emissions by 42%, though impacts on overall pollution exposure are muted by high...
Topics: Development Economics, Energy & Environment, Health care
Research Briefs·Aug 29, 2023

Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits

Maggie Shi
Every dollar Medicare spent on monitoring generates $24–29 in government savings, mainly from the deterrence of medically unnecessary future care....
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·Jul 14, 2023

Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians

Joshua D. Gottlieb, Maria Polyakova, Hugh Shiplett, Kevin Rinz, and Victoria Udalova
Physicians’ annual earnings average $350,000 and comprise 8.6% of national healthcare spending. Government policy has a major impact on earnings:...
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·Apr 19, 2023

The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality

Amy Finkelstein, Casey C. McQuillan, Owen M. Zidar, and Eric Zwick
The pervasiveness of employer-provided healthcare in the United States contributes to labor market inequality; under an alternative scenario where healthcare...
Topics: Employment & Wages, Health care
Research Briefs·Mar 17, 2023

Market Size and Trade in Medical Services

Jonathan I. Dingel, Joshua D. Gottlieb, Maya Lozinski, and Pauline Mourot
Larger regions are more efficient at producing medical services. This leaves policymakers with a trade-off between concentrating medical care production...
Topics: Health care
Research Briefs·Feb 9, 2023

Do Conflict of Interests Disclosures Work? Evidence From Citations In Medical Journals

Christian Leuz, Anup Malani, Maximilian Muhn, and Laszlo Jakab
Disclosures of financial ties between drug companies and researchers in medical journals negatively affect readers’ citation behavior, consistent with the...
Topics: Health care