Research

Long Term Care Hospitals: A Case Study in Waste
(with Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney)
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming
covered by the New York Times (August 27, 2018), Modern Healthcare (August 27, 2018), Forbes (August 29, 2018), Skilled Nursing News (September 3, 2018), and Home Health Care News (September 11, 2018)

Supply-Side Variation in the Use of Emergency Departments
(with Dan Zeltzer, Avichai Chasid, and Ran Balicer)
Journal of Health Economics, 78, July 2021, Article No. 102453
Online Appendix

Rising opioid prescription fulfillment among non-cancer and non-elderly patients—Israel’s alarming example
(with Oren Miron, Dan Zeltzer,  Tzvi Shir, Ran Balicer, and Becca Feldman)
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 46(5), May 2021, 455-456

Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms
(with Amy Finkelstein, Tamar Oostrom, Abigail Ostriker, and Heidi Williams)
American Economic Review, 110(12), December 2020, 3836-3870
Online Appendix
Covered in  Science (Science  370 (6522), pp. 1287-1288, December 11,  2020), MIT News (December 17, 2020), and Imaging Wire (December 24, 2020)

Randomized Trial Shows Healthcare Payment Reform has Equal-Sized Spillover Effects on Patients not Targeted by Reform
(with Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, and Neale Mahoney)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), August 2020, 18939-18947
Supplementary Material

Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare
(with Vilsa Curto, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), April 2019, 302-332
Online Appendix and Estimation Programs
covered by the New York Times (August 7, 2017)

Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals
(with Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney)
Econometrica, 86(6), November 2018, 2161-2219
Estimation Code

Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D
(with Amy Finkelstein and Maria Polyakova)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(3), August 2018, 122-153
Online Appendix, Estimation Programs, Downloadable drug-level elasticity estimates, Downloadable class-level elasticity estimates

Predictive Modeling of U.S. Health Care Spending in Late Life
(with Amy Finkelstein, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Ziad Obermeyer)
Science, 360, June 2018, 1462-1465
Supplementary Material and Programs
Covered in STAT News (June 28, 2018), WBUR (June 28, 2018), Bloomberg (July 18, 2018), and Forbes (October 11, 2018)

Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?
(with Amy Finkelstein and Atul Gupta)
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 107(5), May 2017, 491-495
Online Appendix and Estimation Programs
Covered in Slate (September 27, 2016), The Atlantic (October 7, 2016), The New York Times (January 9, 2017), Harvard Business Review (January 10, 2017), and The Economist (January 12, 2017) 

Developments in Data for Economic Research
(with many authors)
in Economics without Borders: Economic Policy for European Policy Challenges, Richard Blundell et al. (eds.), Cambridge University Press, March 2017, Chapter 13.6, 596-603

Peer-to-Peer Markets
(with Chiara Farronato and Jonathan Levin)
Annual Review of Economics, 8, September 2016, 615-635
Mentioned in Financial Times (September 25, 2015)

Paying on the Margin for Medical Care: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments
(with Amy Finkelstein and Heidi Williams)
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(1), February 2016, 52-79
Online Appendix and Estimation Code

Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: Do Dynamic Incentives Matter?
(with Aviva Aron-Dine, Amy Finkelstein, and Mark Cullen)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(4), October 2015, 725-741
Previously circulated as "Moral hazard in health insurance: How important is forward looking behavior?"
Online Appendix

Assessing Sale Strategies in Online Markets using Matched Listings
(with Theresa Kuchler, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 7(2), May 2015, 215-247
Previously circulated as "Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets"
Online Appendix A and Online Appendix B
Summarized in Vox (September 18, 2011 )

Growth, Adoption, and Use of Mobile e-Commerce
(with Jonathan Levin, Igor Popov, and Neel Sundaresan)
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 104(5), May 2014, 489-494
Online Appendix and Estimation Programs
Summarized in LSE USAPP Blog

Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce
(with Dan Knoepfle, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan)
American Economic Review, 104(1), January 2014, 1-26 (lead article)
Online Appendix
Summarized in LSE USAPP Blog, mentioned in Wall Street Journal (March 22, 2012) and in PC Magzine (May 7, 2013), featured in The Atlantic (May 3, 2012), and referred to in a related SIEPR Policy Brief (January 2013) that we wrote

The Impact of Credit Scoring on Consumer Lending
(with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin)
RAND Journal of Economics, 44(2), Summer 2013, 249-274

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
(with Amy Finkelstein, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark Cullen)
American Economic Review, 103(1), February 2013, 178-219
Online Appendix and Estimation Programs

On The Optimality of Line Call Challenges in Professional Tennis
(with Ran Abramitzky, Shimon Kolkowitz, and Roy Mill)
International Economic Review, 53(3), August 2012, 939-964
Data and Programs

Jonathan Levin: 2011 John Bates Clark Medalist
(with Steve Tadelis)
Journal of Economics Perspectives, 26(2), Spring 2012, 207-222

Beyond Testing: Empirical Models of Insurance Markets
(with Amy Finkelstein and Jonathan Levin)
Annual Review of Economics, 2, September 2010, 311-336 

Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas?
(with Ran Abramitzky and Oren Rigbi)
Economic Journal, 120(545), June 2010, 612-630
Featured in Slate Magazine (December 19, 2008), Financial Times (December 17, 2010), The Economist (December 17, 2011), The Washington Post (December 22, 2011), and Jewish Journal (December 8, 2018).

Optimal Mandates and The Welfare Cost of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from The U.K. Annuity Market
(with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf)
Econometrica, 78(3), May 2010, 1031-1092
Estimation Programs and a Readme file

Not All Rivals Look Alike: Estimating an Equilibrium Model of The Release Date Timing Game
 Economic Inquiry, 48(2), April 2010, 369-390
 Selected as "Best Economic Inquiry Article of 2010"

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
(with William Adams and Jonathan Levin)
American Economic Review, 99(1), March 2009, 49-84
Online Appendix, Estimation Programs
Mentioned in The New York Times (January 18, 2009)

Production Targets
(with Guillermo Caruana)
RAND Journal of Economics, 39(4), Winter 2008, 990-1017
Online Appendix (selected quotes from interviews and press)

Uniform Prices for Differentiated Goods: The Case of the Movie-Theater Industry
(with Barak Orbach)
International Review of Law and Economics, 27(2), June 2007, 129-153
Featured in The Washington Post (November 24, 2006), Arizona Daily Star (January 6, 2007), Fortune (November 25, 2014), and Slate (November 2, 2017), and mentioned in The Wisdom of Crowds (page 101)

Seasonality in the U.S. Motion Picture Industry
RAND Journal of Economics, 38(1), Spring 2007, 127-145
Previously circulated as "Gross Seasonality and Underlying Seasonality: Evidence fom the U.S. Motion Picture Industry"
Raw Data, Edited and Supplemented Data
Covered in The New York Times (September 5, 2013), The New York Times Magazine (September 8, 2013), and The New Yorker (February 23, 2015)

Multilateral Bargaining with Concession Costs
(with Guillermo Caruana and Daniel Quint)
Journal of Economic Theory, 132(1), January 2007, 147-166

What's in a Surname? The Effects of Surname Initials on Academic Success
(with Leeat Yariv)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(1), Winter 2006, 175-188
Publications Data, Faculty Data, Working Paper version with Probits and a Toy Model
Featured in Forbes (May 22, 2006), The Boston Globe (June 25, 2006), The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 20, 2006), Slate Magazine (January 28, 2011), The Sunday Times (May 20, 2010), The Washington Monthly (April 13, 2006), and The Washington Post (May 4, 2006), and mentioned in SuperFreakonomics (page 59)

Informational Asymmetries and Observational Learning in Search
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 30(3), June 2005, 241-259
Earlier Version with more results

The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffic Fatalities
(with Alma Cohen)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 85(4), August 2003, 828-843
Data Set and Do File