Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
We develop a framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white heart attack patients.
Research
Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics
This book deals with how rights and their limits are dealt with in theories as well as in hypothetical and practical cases.
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.
The 1968 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 Outcomes
Past pandemic experience can affect health outcomes in future pandemics. This paper focuses on the last major influenza pandemic in 1968 (H3N2), which killed up to 100,000 people in the US.
In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public.
Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs but effective solutions require the redistribution of vaccines, technology, and other scarce resources from h
Evaluating The Accuracy Of Medicare Risk Adjustment For Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Dementias
In 2020 Medicare reintroduced Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) to risk-adjust Medicare Advantage and accountable care organization (ACO) paymen
Availability of New Medicines in the US and Germany From 2004 to 2018
Importance: Germany’s unique approach to coverage determination and pricing has ensured that effective medicines remain on the market, often at prices reduced through negotiation.
Dynamic Assignment of Patients to Primary and Secondary Inpatient Units: Is Patience a Virtue?
Various hospitals in the U.S.
Parenting Without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict
Against the backdrop of dramatic changes in work and family life, this article draws on survey data from 2,971 mothers working in the service sector to examine how unpredictable schedules are associat
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