PUBLICATIONS
Private Versus Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid
With Tim Layton, Nicole Maestas, and Daniel Prinz
Forthcoming, AEJ: Economic Policy
Media Coverage: NBER Digest, Brookings, VoxEU, CATO Institute
The Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits
With Mark Duggan and Jon Gruber, AEJ: Economic Policy, 2018, 10: 153-186.
Media Coverage: New York Times, Academy Health, NBER Digest
Awards: 2019 NIHCM Finalist
Who Benefits When the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program
With Mark Duggan and Amanda Starc, Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 141: 50-67.
Media Coverage: Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Modern Healthcare, Marginal Revolution, Knowledge at Wharton, Health Affairs Blog
WORKING PAPERS
The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D
With Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Tim Layton, and Adelina Yanyue Wang
Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Review
(Originally Released as NBER Working Paper #28331)
Rationing Medicine Through Paperwork: Prior Authorization Restrictions in Medicare
With Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Sam Burn, and Tim Layton
The Value of Improving Insurance Quality: Evidence from Long-Run Medicaid Attrition (with Ajin Lee)
Submitted
Efficiency Gains Under Incomplete Contracting: Evidence from Medicaid
Cost-Sharing Among Those Who Can't Pay: The Impact of Medicaid Disenrollments (with Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Pauline Mourot) New draft coming soon!
SELECTED RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
How Do Medicaid and Medicare Compare? Evidence from Dual-Eligible Enrollees (with Tim Layton, Nicole Maestas, Daniel Prinz, and Mark Shepard)
Grading State Medicaid Programs: Investigating Cross-State Program Differences (with Tim Layton, Nicole Maestas, Daniel Prinz, and Mark Shepard)
How Are Part D Plans Different? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Enrollees (with Tim Layton, Daniel Prinz, and Anna Zink)