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Brief von Jonathan Gruber an Josef Steindl
No full textBRIEF VON JONATHAN GRUBER AN JOSEF STEINDL
Brief von Jonathan Gruber an Josef Steindl ([1]
Oral history interview of Candace Bennett, conducted by Jonathan Gruber (video)
No full textJonathan Gruber interviews his girlfriend Candace Bennett about dating during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She also discusses how things changed with not being able to meet her friends due to social distancing restrictions
Fundamental Health Care Reform for The United States
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President Obama's health care reforms are the most controversial that the United States has ever seen. Proponents and opponents portray them in radically different terms. Here, Jonathan Gruber explains why statistics from previous experience are of only partial use; and on page 124, Jasjeet Singh Sekhon looks at the uncertainties and false inferences that have been ignored by commentators on both sides.</jats:p
Review of \u3cem\u3eSocial Security and Retirement Around the World.\u3c/em\u3e Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise (Eds.). Reviewed by Martin B. Tracy, Southern Illinois University.
Full text linkBook review of Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise (Eds.), Social Security and Retirement Around the World. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999. $62.00 hardcover. [June 1, 1999]
Review of \u3cem\u3eSocial Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation.\u3c/em\u3e Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise (Eds.). Reviewed by John B. Williamson.
Full text linkBook review of Jonathan Gruber and David Wise (Eds.), Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, $99.00 hardcover
Universal Health Insurance Coverage: Progress and Issues. Twenty-first Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy.
Full text linkJonathan Gruber was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort. He delivered this lecture on October 2, 2009, and his references are to Congressional bills that were under consideration on that date. He laid out the universal coverage debate that’s gone on for a long time in the United States; described a new solution that he think they found for Massachusetts; described how the Massachusetts reform works; and how it can be extended nationally. Finally he spent time on the key issues that Congress is facing in fall 2009 trying to take this model to the national level.health care reform, universal coverage, tax credits, minimum benefits, rationing, employer-sponsored insurance benefits, ESI, cost control, affordability, Massachusetts, employer responsibility, incremental universalism, individual mandate, shared responsibility, pooling, affordability, single payer, public option
Games Parents and Adolescents Play: Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
Full text linkThis paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and support his children beyond age 18. Drawing on the work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982), we show that the parent has, under certain conditions, the incentive to penalize older children for their teenage risky behaviors in order to dissuade the younger children from the same risky behaviors. The model generates two empirical implications: the likelihood of teen risky behaviors and parental transfers to a child who engaged in teen risky behaviors will decrease with the number of remaining children at risk. We test these two implications, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79). Exploiting the availability of repeated observations on individual respondents and of observations on multiple siblings, we find evidence in favor of both predictions.
Essays on the determinants of healthcare utilization
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.The 3rd chapter is co-authored with Jonathan Gruber. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111).The first chapter investigates how hospital mergers affect technology adoption and utilization. I analyze the mergers of five for-profit hospital chains in a difference-in-difference framework, comparing markets in which two or more of the merging chains operated prior to the mergers to markets in which zero or one chain operated. The estimates suggest that treated markets gained 5.1 to 7.1 technologies as a result of the mergers. An increase of 5.1 technologies represents 39% of the increase in technology levels in these markets during the post-merger period. I find little evidence that utilization increased post-merger, but there is some evidence that utilization of certain technologies increased when they were more widely available. In the second chapter, I investigate whether the hospitals that were part of the merging chains achieved cost savings through local consolidation and economies of scale resulting from the formation of a large hospital system. Exploiting variation in how the hospitals were affected by the mergers, I find no evidence that local consolidation led to lower expenditures. However, I document that expenditures at hospitals that were part of the merging chains declined by 14% after the mergers, suggesting there may be economies of scale for a large, national chain. Taken together, the results imply limited cost efficiencies from local consolidation for hospitals that are part of a larger system. The final chapter, co-authored with Jonathan Gruber, examines how individuals respond to changes in copays for physician office visits using data from over 1500 employer-sponsored insurance plans with 1.5 million enrollees. Within our sample, there are 171 separate changes in copays for physician office visits, and we use a difference-in-difference methodology to evaluate their effect. We estimate the elasticity of office visit spending with respect to patient contribution is -0.13. Individuals with chronic conditions appear to be less sensitive to the price of office visits than individuals without chronic conditions. We find suggestive evidence that these effects compound, as copay increases correspond with declines in spending on labs and radiology and a larger decrease in total spending than office visit spending alone.by Kathleen Fehring Easterbrook.Chapter 1. The Chapter 2. Chapter 3. effects of hospital mergers on technology adoption and utilization -- Market consolidation, system formation, and hospital expenditures -- Patient cost-sharing for physician visits and utilization in employer-sponsored insurance plans.Ph. D
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment
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