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The Oregon experiment--effects of Medicaid on clinical outcomes.
- Katherine Baicker, S. Taubman, +7 authors Amy N. Finkelstein
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 1 May 2013
BACKGROUND
Despite the imminent expansion of Medicaid coverage for low-income adults, the effects of expanding coverage are unclear. The 2008 Medicaid expansion in Oregon based on lottery drawings… Expand
Workplace wellness programs can generate savings.
- Katherine Baicker, D. Cutler, Z. Song
- Medicine
- Health affairs
- 1 February 2010
Amid soaring health spending, there is growing interest in workplace disease prevention and wellness programs to improve health and lower costs. In a critical meta-analysis of the literature on costs… Expand
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
- J. V. Bavel, Katherine Baicker, +39 authors Robb Willer
- Psychology, Medicine
- Nature Human Behaviour
- 30 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from… Expand
The Spillover Effects of State Spending
- Katherine Baicker
- Economics
- 1 July 2001
This paper estimates the degree to which state spending is influenced by the spending of neighboring states. Focusing on mandated increases in welfare spending, I find that each dollar of state… Expand
Mortality and access to care among adults after state Medicaid expansions.
- B. Sommers, Katherine Baicker, A. Epstein
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 12 September 2012
BACKGROUND
Several states have expanded Medicaid eligibility for adults in the past decade, and the Affordable Care Act allows states to expand Medicaid dramatically in 2014. Yet the effect of such… Expand
THE IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXPANSIONS ON OTHER SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS ‡ The Impact of Medicaid on Labor Market Activity and Program Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance…
- Katherine Baicker, Amy Finkelstein, J. Song, S. Taubman
- Business
- 2014
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Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment
- S. Taubman, H. Allen, B. Wright, Katherine Baicker, Amy N. Finkelstein
- Medicine
- Science
- 17 January 2014
Health Economy? The intensity of arguments over social science issues often seems inversely correlated with the quantity of experimental evidence. Taubman et al. (p. 263, published online 2 January;… Expand
The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums
- Katherine Baicker, A. Chandra
- Economics
- Journal of Labor Economics
- 1 February 2005
We estimate the effect of rising health insurance premiums on wages, employment, and the distribution of part‐time and full‐time work using variation in medical malpractice payments driven by the… Expand
Malpractice liability costs and the practice of medicine in the Medicare program.
- Katherine Baicker, E. Fisher, A. Chandra
- Medicine
- Health affairs
- 1 May 2007
Mounting malpractice liability costs might affect physician practice patterns in many ways, such as increasing the use of diagnostic procedures while reducing major surgeries. This paper quantifies… Expand
Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery.
- Katherine Baicker, Kasey S. Buckles, A. Chandra
- Medicine
- Health affairs
- 1 September 2006
There is enormous geographic variation in the use of cesarean delivery: For births over 2,500 grams, adjusted cesarean rates vary fourfold between low- and high-use areas. Even for births under 2,500… Expand