Katherine Baicker

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Katherine Baicker

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According to Wikipedia, Katherine Baicker is an American health economist best known for the Oregon Medicaid health experiment. She serves as the provost of the University of Chicago. Biography Baicker received her B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998. She began her academic career teaching economics at Dartmouth College from 1998 to 2005 and her political career in 2001, serving as a senior economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors. From 2005 to 2007, she taught public policy at the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Affairs. During this period she rejoined the Council of Economic Advisors as a congressionally confirmed chief economist. In 2007 she moved to Harvard University where she held positions in the Kennedy School of Government and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health until 2017 when she accepted the position of dean at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

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Katherine Baicker's Published Works

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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response (2020) (3244)
The Oregon experiment--effects of Medicaid on clinical outcomes. (2013) (990)
Workplace wellness programs can generate savings. (2010) (975)
Medicare spending, the physician workforce, and beneficiaries' quality of care. (2004) (595)
Mortality and access to care among adults after state Medicaid expansions. (2012) (553)
Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence from Oregon's Health Insurance Experiment (2014) (531)
The Spillover Effects of State Spending (2001) (341)
Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us (2017) (288)
Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of medicare beneficiaries. (2004) (265)
Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health and Economic Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019) (221)
Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery. (2006) (204)
Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance (2012) (194)
Malpractice liability costs and the practice of medicine in the Medicare program. (2007) (187)
Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities (2005) (171)
The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums (2005) (167)
Patient cost-sharing and healthcare spending growth. (2011) (167)
The effects of Medicaid coverage--learning from the Oregon experiment. (2011) (149)
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform (2014) (132)
Health insurance coverage and take-up: lessons from behavioral economics. (2012) (127)
The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care (2004) (122)
Geographic variation in the quality of prescribing. (2010) (119)
Comparing local and regional variation in health care spending. (2012) (111)
Geographic variation in Medicare drug spending. (2010) (106)
THE IMPACT OF HEALTH INSURANCE EXPANSIONS ON OTHER SOCIAL SAFETY NET PROGRAMS ‡ The Impact of Medicaid on Labor Market Activity and Program Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment † (2014) (100)
The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care: Medicare Advantage and Hospital Utilization (2013) (98)
Effect of Medicaid Coverage on ED Use - Further Evidence from Oregon's Experiment. (2016) (92)
Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality (2004) (85)
Government Decision-Making and the Incidence of Federal Mandates (2000) (78)
The specter of financial armageddon--health care and federal debt in the United States. (2010) (77)
Coordination versus competition in health care reform. (2013) (71)
What the Oregon health study can tell us about expanding Medicaid. (2010) (71)
The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period (2010) (69)
Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities (2005) (66)
The Effect of State Education Finance Reform on Total Local Resources (2006) (62)
Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform (2015) (61)
Evidence-Based Health Policy. (2017) (58)
The Productivity of Physician Specialization: Evidence from the Medicare Program. (2004) (55)
The Uninsured Do Not Use The Emergency Department More-They Use Other Care Less. (2017) (55)
The Effect of Mandated State Education Spending on Total Local Resources (2004) (52)
Policy Watch Trade Adjustment Assistance (2004) (50)
New medicaid enrollees in Oregon report health care successes and challenges. (2014) (48)
Medicare Payments and System-Level Health-Care Use: The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care (2015) (46)
Extensive or Intensive Generosity? The Price and Income Effects of Federal Grants (2001) (42)
A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation (1997) (41)
Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates (2011) (41)
Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of US Health Care Spending. (2012) (37)
Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment (2007) (37)
Variation in medication adherence in heart failure. (2013) (33)
The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Voter Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (2018) (32)
How narrow a network is too narrow? (2015) (32)
Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias (2005) (30)
The Effect of Medicaid on Management of Depression: Evidence From the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (2018) (29)
The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums. (2005) (29)
Health Savings Accounts: Implications for Health Spending (2006) (26)
The Effect Of Medicaid On Medication Use Among Poor Adults: Evidence From Oregon. (2017) (26)
Challenges in Understanding Differences in Health Care Spending Between the United States and Other High-Income Countries. (2018) (26)
The Budgetary Repercussions Of Capital Convictions (2001) (24)
Low-Cost Behavioral Nudges Increase Medicaid Take-Up Among Eligible Residents Of Oregon. (2017) (23)
Aspirin, angioplasty and proton beam therapy: the economics of smarter health-care spending (2011) (23)
Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care (2010) (22)
The Effect of Medicaid on Dental Care of Poor Adults: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. (2018) (22)
Testing the Validity of the Single Interrupted Time Series Design (2019) (21)
Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors (2005) (21)
The Oregon health insurance experiment: when limited policy resources provide research opportunities. (2013) (20)
Myths and misconceptions about U.S. health insurance. (2008) (19)
Uncomfortable arithmetic--whom to cover versus what to cover. (2010) (16)
FISCAL FEDERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES (2010) (16)
The economics of financing Medicare. (2011) (16)
Public financing of the Medicare program will make its uniform structure increasingly costly to sustain. (2013) (15)
Medicare Spending , The PhysicianWorkforce , And Beneficiaries ’ Quality Of Care Areas with a high concentration of specialists also show higher spending and less use of high-quality , effective care (2004) (15)
Risk Selection and Risk Adjustment: Improving Insurance in the Individual and Small Group Markets (2009) (15)
Reducing uninsurance through the nongroup market: health insurance credits and purchasing groups. (2002) (14)
Insurance Experiment : Evidence from the First Year (2011) (14)
Demanding Value from Our Health Care: Motivating Patient Action to Reduce Waste in Health Care (2012) (14)
Effects of medicaid on clinical outcomes. (2013) (12)
Spillovers in Health Care Markets : Implications for Current Law Projections (2010) (12)
Reinsurance for High Health Costs: Benefits, Limitations, and Alternatives (2010) (12)
A trillion-dollar geography lesson. (2009) (11)
The health care jobs fallacy. (2012) (11)
Cooper's analysis is incorrect. (2008) (11)
Reevaluating Reports of Defensive Medicine. (2015) (10)
Lowering the barriers to consumer-directed health care: responding to concerns. (2007) (10)
The insurance value of Medicare. (2012) (10)
Alternative Alternative Payment Models. (2017) (8)
Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care? (2020) (7)
Future of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: Is U.S. Entitlement Spending Sustainable? (2008) (7)
Health care reform in perspective. (2009) (7)
State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor? (2008) (6)
Cost sharing as a tool to drive higher-value care. (2015) (6)
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of the Nurse-Family Partnership’s home visiting program in South Carolina on maternal and child health outcomes (2020) (4)
Health And Economic Outcomes Up To Three Years After A Workplace Wellness Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (2021) (4)
Effect of an Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program on Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-Eligible Population: A Randomized Clinical Trial. (2022) (4)
Are Drugs Substitutes or Complements for Intensive (and Expensive) Medical Treatment. (2011) (4)
Workplace Wellness Programs and Health Outcomes-Reply. (2019) (4)
Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits (2019) (3)
Shared savings, shared decisions, and incentives for high-value medical care. (2014) (3)
Health Insurance Coverage and Health. (2017) (3)
Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (2020) (3)
Short-term Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries After Low-acuity Visits to Emergency Departments and Clinics (2016) (3)
The Effect of Medicaid on Care and Outcomes for Chronic Conditions: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (2021) (2)
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? (2023) (2)
Improving Incentives in Health Care Spending: Properly Designed Health Spending Accounts Can Be a Major Step (2006) (2)
Improving Incentives in Health Care Spending (2006) (2)
Formula for compromise: expanding coverage and promoting high-value care. (2008) (2)
Connecting Neighborhood Characteristics and Clinical Health Outcomes: Novel Data from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (2020) (1)
Driving Better Health Policy: "It's the Evidence, Stupid": Uwe Reinhardt Memorial Lecture. (2018) (1)
Randomized Evaluation of the Nurse Family Partnership in South Carolina (2016) (1)
The Veiled Economics of Employee Cost Sharing. (2015) (1)
Trade-offs in Public Health Insurance Design. (2021) (1)
Defensive Medicine In Oregon: Estimating Prevalence & Costs (2012) (1)
Do Workplace Wellness Programs Work? (2021) (1)
Rethinking Health Insurance Design. (2021) (1)
Medicaid, Health, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Characteristics (2022) (1)
What Values and Priorities Mean for Health Reform. (2020) (1)
Overuse and Underuse of Health Care: New Insights From Economics and Machine Learning (2022) (1)
The effect of rising health care costs on U.S. tax rates. (2011) (1)
BEHAVIORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE. (2015) (1)
The Role of Data and Evidence in Federal Policy (Lunch Plenary) (2018) (0)
The Racers: A Tale about Fairness (2007) (0)
The Impact of Employee Wellness Programs in the United States (2019) (0)
Trade-offs in Public Health Insurance Design. (2021) (0)
Replication Data (2019) (0)
Evidence, Anecdotes, and Health Policy. (2022) (0)
FISCAL FEDERALISM AND SOCIAL INSURANCE (2016) (0)
Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease (reivew) (2005) (0)
Online Appendix (2019) (0)
Are High-Deductible Plans vs. Narrow Networks Really Our TwoOptions? (2016) (0)
UCLA On-Line Working Paper Series Title (2004) (0)
Tying Innovation to Evaluation and Accountability in Programs to Address Intersecting Health and Social Needs. (2022) (0)
The Role of Government Policy in Benefit Design (2017) (0)
Nudges and Improved Communication to Encourage Medicaid Take-Up in Oregon (2021) (0)
Appendix Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance (2015) (0)
Health Insurance Coverage and Health. (2017) (0)
People Want Health Outcomes, Not Health Care (2016) (0)
Making Health Care More Affordable Through Health Insurance Finance Reform (2007) (0)
Can—and Should—Benefit Design Be Standardized? (2016) (0)
A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the US. (2023) (0)
Evidence suggests that the malpractice crisis has more complex effects than are commonly assumed . Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors ? (0)
Physicians' assessment of surgeon quality is less accurate at predicting outcomes than using surgical volume (1998) (0)
Economic Analysis for Evidence-Based Health Policy: Progress and Pitfalls (2019) (0)
T HE E FFECT OF S TATE E DUCATION F INANCE R EFORM ON T OTAL L OCAL R ESOURCES (2006) (0)
F ISCAL S HENANIGANS , T ARGETED F EDERAL H EALTH C ARE F UNDS , AND P ATIENT M ORTALITY (2004) (0)
DATAWATCH The Effect Of Medicaid On Medication Use Among Poor Adults : Evidence From Oregon Oregon ’ s 2008 Medicaid expansion significantly increased the use of prescription medications in 2009 – 10 (2017) (0)
The Physician’s Role in Improving Patient Behavior (2016) (0)
How Safe Is the Local Safety Net? Fiscal Distress, Public Spending, and the Budgetary Repercussions of Capital Convictions (2001) (0)

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