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Mental health from remote educational instruction. Halloween health tips. “Dreamers” and ACA plan eligibility. Using muons to ‘x-ray’ the pyramids of Egypt. A Milwaukee legend.

Merchants of Death

That is the clever title of recent American Economic Review publication by Cyrus Aghamolla, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Xuelin Li, Richard T. Thakor. The abstract is below. This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with…

Impact of AI on the economy

From Bonney et al. (2024): Using a new large-scale business survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that AI use is having a much greater impact on worker tasks than on employment levels at the firm level. About 27% of firms using AI report replacing worker tasks, but only about 5% experience employment change…

Best practices for conducting a scoping review

Scoping reviews are a type of knowledge synthesis, which follow a systematic approach to map evidence on a topic and identify main concepts, theories, sources, and knowledge gaps. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) defines a scoping review as: ‘exploratory projects that systematically map the literature available on a topic, identifying key concepts, theories,…

Which econometric method should you use for causal inference of health policy?

TL;DR A paper by Ress and Wild (2024) provide the following recommendations in answering this question. When aiming to control for a large covariate set, consider using the superlearner to estimate nuisance parameters. When employing the superlearner to estimate nuisance parameters, consider using doubly robust estimation approaches, such as AIPW and TMLE. When faced with…

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Will ICER’s ‘shared savings’ approach decrease value-based prices most for the most severe diseases?

That is the title of a paper recently accepted for publication by Value in Health with co-authors Shanshan Wang, Khounish Sharma, Kathryn Spurrier, Robert J. Nordyke. The abstract is below. Objectives To identify the types of disease most likely to be impacted by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER) shared savings assumptions. Methods…