Search Results - "Agarwal, Sumit"

Consumption and Debt Response to Unanticipated Income Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore by Agarwal, Sumit, Qian, Wenlan

“…This paper uses a unique panel dataset of consumer financial transactions to study how consumers respond to an exogenous unanticipated income shock…”
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Loan prospecting and the loss of soft information by Agarwal, Sumit, Ben-David, Itzhak

“…We study a controlled experiment in which a bank's loan officers were incentivized based on originated loan volume to encourage prospecting for new business…”
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Distance and Private Information in Lending by Agarwal, Sumit, Hauswald, Robert

“…We study the effects of physical distance on the acquisition and use of private information in informationally opaque credit markets. Using a unique data set…”
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Professional Dissonance and Burnout in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study by Agarwal, Sumit D, Pabo, Erika, Rozenblum, Ronen, Sherritt, Karen M

“…Burnout negatively affects physician health, productivity, and patient care. Its prevalence is high among physicians, especially those in primary care, yet few…”
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Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making by Agarwal, Sumit, Mazumder, Bhashkar

“…We analyze the effects of cognitive abilities on two examples of consumer financial decisions where suboptimal behavior is well defined. The first example…”
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FinTech, Lending and Payment Innovation: A Review by Agarwal, Sumit, Zhang, Jian

“…The global landscape has seen the advent of new technology in offering innovative financial services and products and reshaping the financial sector, namely…”
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Patterns in Outpatient Benzodiazepine Prescribing in the United States by Agarwal, Sumit D, Landon, Bruce E

“…Benzodiazepines are implicated in a growing number of overdose-related deaths. To quantify patterns in outpatient benzodiazepine prescribing and to compare…”
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The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes by Aaronson, Daniel, Agarwal, Sumit, French, Eric

“…Immediately following a minimum wage hike, household income rises on average by about $250 per quarter and spending by roughly $700 per quarter for households…”
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Insurance Coverage after Job Loss — The Importance of the ACA during the Covid-Associated Recession by Agarwal, Sumit D, Sommers, Benjamin D

“…Widespread layoffs amid the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to cut off millions of people from their employer-sponsored health insurance plans at a time when…”
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The Underuse of Medicare's Prevention and Coordination Codes in Primary Care : A Cross-Sectional and Modeling Study by Agarwal, Sumit D, Basu, Sanjay, Landon, Bruce E

“…Efforts to better support primary care include the addition of primary care-focused billing codes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). To examine…”
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A Third Option by Agarwal, Sumit D

“…Agarwal offers insight on having a third opinion for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). He notes his decision for a young patient after an overdose and…”
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Effect of Cash Benefits on Health Care Utilization and Health: A Randomized Study by Agarwal, Sumit D, Cook, Benjamin Lê, Liebman, Jeffrey B

“…IMPORTANCE: Poverty is associated with greater barriers to health care and worse health outcomes, but it remains unclear whether income support can improve…”
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Atomic layer deposition of silicon-based dielectrics for semiconductor manufacturing: Current status and future outlook by Ovanesyan, Rafaiel A., Filatova, Ekaterina A., Elliott, Simon D., Hausmann, Dennis M., Smith, David C., Agarwal, Sumit

“…The fabrication of next-generation semiconductor devices has created a need for low-temperature (≤400 °C) deposition of highly-conformal (>95%) SiO2, SiNx, and…”
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Experimental techniques for thermal product determination of coaxial surface junction thermocouples during short duration transient measurements by Agarwal, Sumit, Sahoo, Niranjan, Singh, Rishikesh Kumar

“…•In-house fabrication of coaxial surface junction thermocouples (CSJTs).•Experimental method for thermal product determination in millisecond time…”
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Etch selectivity during plasma-assisted etching of SiO2 and SiNx: Transitioning from reactive ion etching to atomic layer etching by Gasvoda, Ryan J., Zhang, Zhonghao, Wang, Scott, Hudson, Eric A., Agarwal, Sumit

“…Continued downscaling of semiconductor devices has placed stringent constraints on all aspects of the fabrication process including plasma-assisted anisotropic…”
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The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates—Evidence from Consumer Credit Data by Agarwal, Sumit, Liu, Chunlin, Souleles, Nicholas S.

“…We use a new panel data set of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response…”
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The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation by AGARWAL, SUMIT, DRISCOLL, JOHN C., GABAIX, XAVIER, LAIBSON, DAVID

“…Many consumers make poor financial choices, and older adults are particularly vulnerable to such errors. About half of the population between ages 80 and 89…”
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Adoption of Medicare’s Transitional Care Management and Chronic Care Management Codes in Primary Care by Agarwal, Sumit D, Barnett, Michael L, Souza, Jeffrey, Landon, Bruce E

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The Politics of Foreclosures by AGARWAL, SUMIT, AMROMIN, GENE, BEN-DAVID, ITZHAK, DINC, SERDAR

“…The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee considered many important banking reforms in 2009 to 2010. We show that, during this period,…”
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Medicare's Care Management Codes Might Not Support Primary Care As Expected by Agarwal, Sumit D, Barnett, Michael L, Souza, Jeffrey, Landon, Bruce E

“…To enhance compensation for primary care activities that occur outside of face-to-face visits, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently…”
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