Little is known about the effect of hospital advertising despite high spending. Medicare data to leveraged to show that advertising expands net inpatient volume and government spending, from Abby E. Alpert, @gupta_atulk, Michael R. Richards, Sarah D. Schutz, and Christopher M. Whaley https://t.co/CUrcTPGQBv
Whistleblowers are a highly cost-effective way at stopping fraud in public programs. In the September issue, "Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? Evidence from Medicare" by Jetson Leder-Luis @jetson_econ https://t.co/Q4DTOr1UOS
Excited that this paper with @asacarny and @ambarlaforgia is forthcoming in AEJ Applied!
Thanks to my coauthors for a fun journey learning so much about hospital gaming (fraud?) and how they use windfall $
We leverage one of the largest Medicare scandals ($3 bn!) to show:
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare" by Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny. https://t.co/fUzE0ClgKC
Today, in things that everybody knows but still bear repeating:
*the effect of repealing rent control laws on the supply of apartments in Buenos Aires*
(from "The Impact of the Chainsaw-Liberation on the Rental Housing Market in Buenos Aires", Elfert and Thomsen, IZA DP 18107)
Countries are like insurance pools. Young pay for the old. If there’s adequate fertility, the pool is stable. If fertility falls too much in a country, either insurance levels must fall or there will be will adverse selection & youth will flee the country. This will hasten the collapse of insurance, a death spiral.
Excellent jargon-free explainer on private equity (PE) to help understand this complex new ownership arrangement and concern for healthcare policymakers
My latest for BI. As the private equity industry eyes a spot in Americans' 401(k)s, it seemed a good time to ask – how has that worked out for pension plans? This video dives into the surprisingly complex answer.
https://t.co/fYm2wmcNhR
This is nuts.
In 1990 healthcare wasn’t the top employer in any state
In 2024 it’s the top employer in 39 states
We are the united states of healthcare
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