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Health Economics Initiative 2024 Annual Conference BFI

WEBOn May 2-3, 2024, the Becker Friedman Institute’s Health Economics Initiative’s annual conference brought together faculty, research professionals, and students to present the …

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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage In the …

WEBHealth markets abound in market failures, which has driven the predominant approach to insurance expansion. While this approach has yielded a large body of fruitful research elucidating the (many) problems …

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Health Economics Initiative Annual Conference BFI

WEBOn May 12-13, 2022, the Becker Friedman Institute Health Economics Initiative’s annual conference brought together faculty, research professionals, and students to explore a …

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Market Size and Trade in Medical Services BFI

WEBMarket Size and Trade in Medical Services. Larger regions are more efficient at producing medical services. This leaves policymakers with a trade-off between concentrating medical care production in more …

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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United

WEBThe United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We …

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The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the …

WEBTo better understand the trade-offs between health and economic outcomes, the authors advocate the use of a distributional pandemic possibility frontier (PPF), which presents policy makers with a …

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The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality BFI

WEBThe US health system, in which most people receive insurance through an employer, is often criticized for generating disparate health outcomes. Recently, critics have also pointed to its harmful …

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Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit …

WEBView Research Brief. Private equity (PE) has played an increasing role in health care management in recent years, with total investment increasing from less than $5 billion in 2000 to more than …

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A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away BFI

WEBObserving the back-and-forth sequences of claims’ denials and resubmissions for past visits, we can estimate physicians’ costs of haggling with insurers …

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The Mortality of the US Homeless Population BFI

WEBIn doing so, the authors provide novel insights into the health risks associated with homelessness. To examine this phenomenon, the authors follow for 12 …

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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-Income …

WEBUniversal health coverage is a widely shared goal across lower-income countries. We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and …

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Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on …

WEBRecessions reduce mortality, driven largely by the external health effects of reduced economic activity (such as decreases in air pollution); this substantially reduces …

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TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health BFI

WEBThe TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health is working to change this. A joint venture between the University of Chicago’s Biological Sciences and Social …

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The Evidence Base on the Impact of Price Controls on Medical …

WEBThe mid-range effect of the evidence implies a 44.6 percent decline in R&D and 254 fewer new drug approvals. As a benchmark on the large size of the adverse …

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Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization

WEBHigh administrative costs in U.S. health care have provoked concern among policymakers over potential waste, but many of these costs are generated by managed …

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The Economic Consequences of Health Care Reform BFI

WEBThe 2010 Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) was intended to reverse these trends but has had economic side effects. The ACA and ongoing attempts at …

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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality

WEBRacial disparities in health outcomes in hospital settings may arise due to di erences in the quality and intensity of health care provided both across and within hospitals (Asch et …

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Chicago Booth Professor Matthew J. Notowidigdo Appointed Co

WEBThe Health Economics Initiative unites scholars from across the UChicago community to support the economic analysis of health policy and systems, including the …

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Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from

WEBA potential contributing factor is the low utilization of health systems, stemming from the low perceived quality of care delivered by health personnel. This …

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Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital

WEBThe average physician earns $243,400 in wages and $350,000 in total individual income. This measure is right-skewed; the median physician earns $265,000 …

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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at University of Chicago

WEBThe Becker Friedman Institute for Economics serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics …

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