Search Results - "Kowalski, Amanda E."

Long-Term Impacts of Childhood Medicaid Expansions on Outcomes in Adulthood by BROWN, DAVID W., KOWALSKI, AMANDA E., LURIE, ITHAI Z.

“…We use administrative data from the Internal Revenue Service to examine long-term impacts of childhood Medicaid eligibility expansions on outcomes in adulthood…”
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The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care: Evidence from Massachusetts by Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key features of this legislation were a model…”
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns by Almond, Douglas, Doyle, Joseph J., Kowalski, Amanda E., Williams, Heidi

“…A key policy question is whether the benefits of additional medical expenditures exceed their costs. We propose a new approach for estimating marginal returns…”
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Behaviour within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines by Kowalski, Amanda E

“…Mammography guidelines have weakened in response to evidence that mammograms diagnose breast cancers that would never eventually cause symptoms, a phenomenon…”
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Quantile regression with censoring and endogeneity by Chernozhukov, Victor, Fernández-Val, Iván, Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…In this paper we develop a new censored quantile instrumental variable (CQIV) estimator and describe its properties and computation. The CQIV estimator…”
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Mammograms and Mortality: How Has the Evidence Evolved? by Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…Decades of evidence reveal a complicated relationship between mammograms and mortality. Mammograms may detect deadly cancers early, but they may also lead to…”
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How to examine external validity within an experiment by Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…A fundamental concern for researchers who analyze and design experiments is that the estimate obtained from the experiment might not be externally valid for…”
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Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice by Hackmann, Martin B., Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…We develop a model of selection that incorporates a key element of recent health reforms: an individual mandate. Using data from Massachusetts, we estimate the…”
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Estimating the tradeoff between risk protection and moral hazard with a nonlinear budget set model of health insurance by Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…Insurance induces a tradeoff between the welfare gains from risk protection and the welfare losses from moral hazard. Empirical work traditionally estimates…”
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Mandate-based health reform and the labor market: Evidence from the Massachusetts reform by Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…•We model the labor market impact of the Massachusetts and national health reforms.•Our approach identifies “sufficient statistics” for welfare analysis.•We…”
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The Early Impact of the Affordable Care Act, State by State by KOWALSKI, AMANDA E.

“…In this paper I examine the effects that state policy decisions have had on the early impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) using data through the first half…”
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Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform by Hackmann, Martin B., Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in…”
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Evaluation of Combined Financial Incentives and Deposit Contract Intervention for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Anderson, Daren R., Horn, Samantha, Karlan, Dean, Kowalski, Amanda E., Sindelar, Jody L., Zinman, Jonathan

“…Introduction. We evaluate whether a combination of financial incentives and deposit contracts improves cessation rates among low- to moderate-income smokers…”
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THE ROLE OF HOSPITAL HETEROGENEITY IN MEASURING MARGINAL RETURNS TO MEDICAL CARE: A REPLY TO BARRECA, GULDI, LINDO, AND WADDELL by Almond, Douglas, Doyle, Joseph J., Kowalski, Amanda E., Williams, Heidi

“…In Almond et al. (2010), we describe how marginal returns to medical care can be estimated by comparing patients on either side of diagnostic thresholds. Our…”
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Estimating marginal returns to medical care: evidence from at-risk newborns by Almond, Douglas, Doyle, Jr., Joseph J., Kowalski, Amanda E, Williams, Heidi

“…A key policy question is whether the benefits of additional medical expenditures exceed their costs. We propose a new approach for estimating marginal returns…”
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