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Better off by risk adjustment? Socioeconomic disparities in care utilization in Sweden following a payment reform 风险调整带来的好处?支付改革后瑞典医疗利用率的社会经济差异
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22610
Anders Anell, Margareta Dackehag, Jens Dietrichson, Lina Maria Ellegård, Gustav Kjellsson
Reducing socioeconomic health inequalities is a key goal of most health systems. A challenge in this regard is that healthcare providers may have incentives to avoid or undertreat patients who are relatively costly to treat. Due to the socioeconomic gradient in health, individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) are especially likely to be negatively affected by such attempts. To counter these incentives, payments are often risk adjusted based on patient characteristics. However, empirical evidence is lacking on how, or if, risk adjustment affects care utilization. We examine if a novel risk adjustment model in primary care affected socioeconomic differences in care utilization among individuals with a chronic condition. The new risk adjustment model implied that the capitation—the monthly reimbursement paid by the health authority to care providers for each enrolled patient—increased substantially for chronically ill low-SES patients. Yet, we do not find any robust evidence that their access to primary care improved relative to patients with high SES, and we find no effects on adverse health events (hospitalizations). These results suggest that the new risk adjustment model did not reduce existing health inequalities, indicating the need for more targeted incentives and interventions to reach low-SES groups.
减少社会经济健康不平等是大多数医疗系统的主要目标。这方面的一个挑战是,医疗服务提供者可能有动机避免或减少对治疗成本相对较高的患者的治疗。由于社会经济在健康方面的梯度,社会经济地位低的个人尤其可能受到这种企图的负面影响。为了消除这些诱因,通常会根据患者特征对付款进行风险调整。然而,关于风险调整如何或是否会影响医疗利用率,目前还缺乏实证证据。我们研究了初级医疗中的新型风险调整模式是否会影响慢性病患者在利用医疗服务方面的社会经济差异。新的风险调整模式意味着,按人头付费--即卫生部门每月向医疗服务提供者为每位入组患者支付的补偿--对于低社会经济地位的慢性病患者来说大幅增加。然而,我们并没有发现任何有力的证据表明,相对于社会经济地位高的患者而言,他们获得初级保健的机会有所改善,而且我们也没有发现对不良健康事件(住院)的影响。这些结果表明,新的风险调整模型并没有减少现有的健康不平等现象,这表明需要更有针对性的激励和干预措施来帮助低社会经济地位群体。
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The long‐run effects of temporary protection from deportation 临时保护免于递解出境的长期影响
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22609
Jorgen M. Harris, Rhiannon Jerch
This paper estimates the effect of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a temporary legalization policy, on the incomes and property ownership of Salvadoran recipients over 20 years. We compare likely undocumented Salvadoran immigrants eligible for TPS to a control group of likely undocumented immigrants ineligible for TPS in an event study design that allows us to observe the policy's effects over 2 decades. We find that earnings, homeownership, and use of a car increased considerably for at least 15 years following the granting of TPS. This suggests that even temporary and limited legal status can have substantial and sustained benefits for recipients.
本文估算了临时保护身份(TPS)这一临时合法化政策在 20 年间对萨尔瓦多受保护者的收入和财产所有权的影响。我们将有资格获得临时保护身份的萨尔瓦多可能无证移民与无资格获得临时保护身份的可能无证移民对照组进行比较,通过事件研究设计,观察该政策 20 年来的影响。我们发现,在给予 TPS 之后的至少 15 年里,收入、房屋所有权和汽车使用率都有了显著提高。这表明,即使是临时和有限的合法身份也能为受惠者带来巨大和持续的好处。
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More doctors in town now? Evidence from Medicaid expansions 现在城里的医生更多了?扩大医疗补助计划的证据
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22611
Jason Huh, Jianjing Lin
We examine how physicians’ practice locations are affected by Medicaid expansions. We focus on the dramatic Medicaid eligibility expansions for pregnant women that took place between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Following a recently-developed estimation strategy, we identify the change in OB/GYN supply due to the expansions in an event-study framework. We find that OB/GYN counts per capita grew post-expansion and the increase persisted for years. Our results are mainly driven by early-career OB/GYNs and concentrated in densely populated or poor counties. Our results show that Medicaid coverage rules could be an important determinant of physician location choice.
我们研究了医生的执业地点如何受到医疗补助扩展的影响。我们的研究重点是 20 世纪 80 年代初到 90 年代初发生的针对孕妇的医疗补助资格的大幅扩张。根据最近开发的估算策略,我们在事件研究框架下确定了妇产科医生供应因扩招而发生的变化。我们发现,妇产科医生的人均数量在扩张后有所增长,而且这种增长持续了多年。我们的研究结果主要受早期职业妇产科医生的推动,并且集中在人口稠密或贫困的县。我们的结果表明,医疗补助的覆盖规则可能是医生地点选择的重要决定因素。
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The effects of a newcomer program on the academic achievement of English Learners 新移民计划对英语学习者学业成绩的影响
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22601
Camila Morales, Monica Mogollon

School districts serving newcomer English Learners (ELs) generally offer short-term intensive English programs designed to teach foundational language skills and guide students’ integration into the U.S. school system. Despite the growing popularity of newcomer programs, however, there is limited rigorous evidence of their efficacy. In this paper, we present evidence on the causal effect of an intensive English program on the academic achievement of newcomer EL students. Access to the program is determined by a test score cutoff which we leverage to employ a regression discontinuity design. On average, students who are eligible for the program in elementary grades experience a boost in their academic achievement for up to 3 years following initial eligibility. Conversely, newcomer EL students who are marginally eligible for intensive English language instruction in middle school grades see a decline in achievement that tends to exacerbate over time.

为新来的英语学习者(ELs)提供服务的学区一般都会提供短期强化英语课程,旨在教授基础语言技能,引导学生融入美国学校系统。尽管新移民项目越来越受欢迎,但有关其效果的严格证据却很有限。在本文中,我们展示了强化英语课程对新移民英语语言学生学业成绩的因果效应。我们采用回归不连续设计,通过考试分数分界线来决定是否可以参加该项目。平均而言,在小学年级获得该项目资格的学生,其学业成绩会在获得初始资格后的长达 3 年的时间内得到提升。与此相反,在初中年级获得强化英语教学资格的新入学英语语言学生,其学习成绩会下降,而且随着时间的推移,下降趋势会加剧。
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JPAM Doctoral Dissertation Listing 2023 JPAM 博士论文列表 2023
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22606
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A blueprint for U.S. health insurance policy 美国医疗保险政策蓝图
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22602
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
<p>There is no shortage of proposals for U.S. health insurance reform. In our recent book, <i>We've Got You Covered</i>: <i>Rebooting American Health Care</i> (Einav & Finkelstein, <span>2023</span>), we offered one more. It grew out of our internal debates over healthcare reform, between two academic economists who work (often together) on U.S. health policy but have not yet been involved in making that policy.</p><p>We started by trying to define the goal: what is the problem that healthcare policy should address? There are many good reasons for government to be involved, but the reasons are usually assumed rather than articulated when proposing or evaluating a specific policy proposal. That's unfortunate. It's hard to have a constructive debate about solutions unless we've articulated—and hopefully agreed upon—goals.</p><p>We therefore spent a fair amount of time trying to identify the driving impetus behind our history of health policy reforms and attempted reforms. From this, we ended up concluding that our health policy has been motivated by an enduring, if unwritten, social contract: access to essential health care, regardless of resources.</p><p>We expected a fair amount of push back on this definition of the goal of U.S. health policy. After all, we are a society known for advocating independence and liberty, and for lifting oneself up by the bootstraps. We are also, (in)famously, the only high-income country without universal health insurance coverage. We therefore devoted about a third of our book to trying to convince our readers that in fact this social contract exists, and that the myriad problems with the current U.S. health insurance “system” reflect our failure to fulfill our obligations, not their absence.</p><p>Somewhat to our surprise, in the many reactions we've received from readers across the political spectrum, there has been near-universal agreement with our premise: that the U.S. is committed as a society to trying to ensure access to essential medical care for everyone, whether or not they can pay for it. Reactions have instead focused on particular elements of our proposal for how to fulfill this commitment.</p><p>We described what we thought an ideal system would look like, freed from political, but not economic, constraints. It contains two main elements. The first is universal coverage that is automatic, free to the patient, and basic. The second is the option—for those who want and can afford it—to purchase supplemental coverage in a well-functioning marketplace. We argued that we could thus fulfill our social contract without tackling the other multi-trillion-dollar elephant in the room: the problem of high and often inefficient healthcare spending.</p><p>In what follows, we briefly describe how we arrived at these key elements.</p><p>We estimate that about two thirds of Americans—those who are covered by Medicare or by private health insurance through an employer—would want to supplement beyond the basic. The
美国医疗保险改革不乏各种建议。在我们最近出版的新书《我们为您提供保障》(We've Got You Covered:重启美国医疗保健》(Einav & Finkelstein, 2023 年)一书中,我们又提出了一项建议。这本书源于我们内部关于医疗改革的争论,这两位学术经济学家(经常一起)研究美国医疗政策,但尚未参与政策的制定。政府参与其中有很多很好的理由,但在提出或评估一项具体的政策建议时,这些理由通常是假定的,而不是阐明的。这是令人遗憾的。因此,我们花了相当多的时间,试图找出我们医疗政策改革和尝试改革的历史背后的推动力。由此,我们最终得出结论,我们的医疗政策是由一个持久的、虽然不成文的社会契约所驱动的:无论资源如何,都能获得基本的医疗保健。毕竟,我们是一个以倡导独立、自由和自力更生而著称的社会。我们也是(著名的)唯一一个没有全民医疗保险的高收入国家。因此,我们在书中用了大约三分之一的篇幅来试图说服读者,事实上这种社会契约是存在的,而美国现行医疗保险 "体系 "中存在的无数问题反映出我们没有履行义务,而不是没有义务。让我们感到有些意外的是,在我们从不同政治派别的读者那里收到的许多反应中,他们几乎普遍同意我们的前提:美国作为一个社会,致力于努力确保每个人都能获得基本的医疗服务,无论他们是否有能力支付。我们描述了我们心目中摆脱了政治(而非经济)限制的理想体系。它包含两个主要因素。第一个要素是自动、免费和基本的全民医保。其次是那些有意愿且有能力的人可以选择在运作良好的市场上购买补充保险。我们认为,这样我们就可以履行我们的社会契约,而无需解决房间里另一个价值数万亿美元的大象:高昂且往往效率低下的医疗支出问题。
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Building blocks for U.S. health insurance policy 美国医疗保险政策的基石
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22600
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Response to Jason Furman 对 Jason Furman 的答复
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22603
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein
<p>We are pleased that Jason Furman responded to our proposal by recommending that the book (on which we base the proposal) should be “required reading by specialists and non-specialists alike” and noting that he “would be perfectly happy if [our] proposal were adopted.” Both comments are extremely gratifying to receive from a skilled and insightful economist, and particularly from someone who was involved—at the highest levels of the Obama Administration—in crafting national health care policy. We're tempted to stop our response here.</p><p>If only Furman had, too.</p><p>But in the remainder of his essay, Furman critiques our proposal… and also complains that it can never get enacted. This pairing reminds us of the old joke about people critiquing the culinary options at a resort: the food is terrible… and such small portions!</p><p>We offered a two-part proposal for U.S. health insurance policy: (i) universal, automatic, basic coverage that is free for the patient; and (ii) the option to buy supplemental coverage in a well-designed market. Furman appears to have only one substantive critique with this proposal, which is the lack of cost sharing in the basic plan. He asks why everything in the basic plan should be covered for free, given the substantial body of evidence that cost-sharing is a “proven tool for reducing costs without worsening outcomes.”</p><p>We have no disagreement with Furman's description of the evidence on the impacts of cost-sharing. But cost-sharing cannot serve its cost-reducing function if most people and/or most expenses end up exempted from it. And, as we describe in our original Point piece, this is what has happened in countries around the world that have tried to introduce cost-sharing in their basic plan.</p><p>Furman takes note of our answer but argues that “their discussions of the experience of other countries feels like adding a political constraint to their optimization exercise, something they eschew in developing their overall approach.” We certainly agree that it would be inconsistent—and unpalatable—to pick and choose only some political constraints to respect. But our argument is <i>not</i> that we shouldn't have cost-sharing in the basic plan because it's <i>politically</i> unsustainable. Rather, our argument is that cost-sharing in the universal basic plan is <i>substantively</i> in tension with the very purpose of the existence of universal basic coverage: to provide access to essential health care, regardless of resources. There are always going to be people who cannot—or may not—be able to afford even small copays. This is why—in order to accomplish the purpose of the universal basic coverage—countries have found themselves compelled to issue an enormous set of exemptions. As we say in our original piece, cost-sharing in the basic plan is on a collision course with itself.</p><p>Furman further counters that a better approach would be income-related cost-sharing as originally proposed by Feldstein (<sp
让我们感到高兴的是,杰森-弗曼在回应我们的建议时,建议这本书(我们的建议正是基于此书)应成为 "专家和非专家的必读书",并指出他 "如果[我们的]建议被采纳,他会非常高兴"。这两段评论都让人感到非常欣慰,因为它出自一位技术精湛、见解独到的经济学家之口,尤其是出自一位曾参与制定国家医疗政策的奥巴马政府最高层人士之口。我们很想就此打住。但在文章的其余部分,福尔曼对我们的建议提出了批评......同时也抱怨说,我们的建议永远不会被采纳。这种搭配让我们想起了一个老笑话:人们批评度假胜地的美食选择:食物太难吃了......而且份量太少!
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Notes from the Editor 编辑手记
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22612
Erdal Tekin
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Starting health reform from here 从这里开始医疗改革
IF 3.8 3区 管理学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2024-04-30 DOI: 10.1002/pam.22607
Jason Furman
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