WORKING PAPERS
Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids (June 2022)
Revisions requested at Econometrica
Media coverage: Marginal Revolution, Mother Jones, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Abstract
Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes (March 2024)
with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, Hannes Schwandt
NBER Working Paper 28311
Revisions requested at Review of Economic Studies
Media coverage: Vox’s The Weeds, Marketplace, Probable Causation, Freakonomics M.D.
Abstract
The Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing (June 2023)
with Janet Currie and Anran Li
NBER Working Paper 30889
Abstract
The Expansionary and Contractionary Supply-Side Effects of Health Insurance (November 2023)
with Eilidh Geddes
NBER Working Paper 31483
Abstract
JOURNAL ARTICLES
ECONOMICS AND GENERAL INTEREST
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health
with Diane Alexander
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming
Featured in the NBER Bulletin on Health
Abstract
Local Exposure to School Shootings and Youth Antidepressant Use (online appendix)
with Maya Rossin-Slater, Hannes Schwandt, Sam Trejo, and Lindsey Uniat
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 117(38): 23484–23489
Media coverage: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Hill
Featured in the NBER Digest
Abstract
Check Up Before You Check Out: Retail Clinics and Emergency Room Use (online appendix)
with Diane Alexander and Janet Currie
Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 178
Media coverage: Vox's The Weeds, Freakonomics Radio, U.S. News & World Report
Abstract
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality (online appendix)
with Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, and Ilya Rahkovsky
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134(4): 1793–1844
Subsumes working paper: Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchases Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum (with Jessie Handbury and Ilya Rahkovsky)
Media coverage: The Atlantic, NYTimes Upshot, Chicago Policy Review, FiveThirtyEight, Forbes, Freakonomics
Abstract
Just What the Nurse Practitioner Ordered: Independent Prescriptive Authority and Population Mental Health (online appendix)
with Diane Alexander
Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66: 145–162
Abstract
U.S. Employment and Opioids: Is There a Connection?
with Janet Currie and Jonas Jin
Research in Labor Economics, 2019, 47: 253–280
Media coverage: Bloomberg, Chicago Policy Review
Abstract
Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Is There a Role for Physician Education? (online appendix)
with Janet Currie
American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4(3): 383–410
Media coverage: The Economist, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, Vox's The Weeds, STAT
Featured in the ASHEcon Newsletter
Abstract
MEDICAL AND HEALTH POLICY
Enrollment Brokers Did Not Increase Medicaid Enrollment, 2008–18
with Becky Staiger, Anran Li, and Diane Alexander
Health Affairs, 2022, 41(9): 1333–1341
Abstract
Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics and Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic
with Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt, and Jonathan Zhang
JAMA Network Open, 2021, 4(4): e216147
Abstract
Trends in Drug Overdose Mortality in Ohio During the First 7 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
with Janet Currie, Hannes Schwandt, and Jonathan Zhang
JAMA Network Open (Peer-reviewed Research Letter), 2021, 4(4): e217112
OTHER WRITING
The Lasting Consequences of School Shootings on the Students Who Survive Them
with Marika Cabral, Bokyung Kim, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Hannes Schwandt
The Conversation, May 2022
Eliminating Food Deserts Won’t Help Poorer Americans Eat Healthier
with Hunt Allcott and Jean-Pierre Dubé
The Conversation, December 2019
The Opioid Crisis: Tragedy, Treatments, and Trade-offs
SIEPR Policy Brief, February 2019
Research Roundup: What Does the Evidence Say About How to Fight the Opioid Epidemic?
with Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee
Brookings Institute, December 2018
A Closer Look at How the Opioid Epidemic Affects Employment
with Janet Currie
Harvard Business Review, August 2018
Evaluating the Economic Response to Japan's Earthquake
with David Weinstein
RIETI Policy Discussion Paper Series, February 2012