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Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?
Tomas J. Philipson and Eric Sun

Drug development is time consuming and expensive. Pharmaceutical companies often spend over $100 billion during the development process and it can take more than a decade for drugs to reach the market. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the drug approval process and therefore must balance the speed of drug approval against consumer safety. Read more >>

Health Research Areas
 

Health care analysis, Health policy, Medicare and Medicaid, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Prevention




Research in Brief
 

2009

Clean Water Makes You Dirty: Water Supply and Sanitation Behavior in the Philippines
Daniel Bennett

2008

Depressive Symptoms in Traditional and Transitional Retirement
Michelle Pannor Silver

Essays on Children’s Health Insurance
Lindsey Leininger

Impact of Prescription Drug Cost-Sharing on Adherence to Antidepressants and Depression- Related Medical Expenditures
Carolanne Dai

Optimal Health Insurance for Prevention and Treatment
Willard Manning and Randall Ellis

The Value of Information on Preference Heterogeneity and Individualized Care
David Meltzer and Anirban Basu

2007

The Effects of On-Duty Napping on Intern Sleep Time and Fatigue
David Meltzer and Vineet Arora

The Impact of Welfare Reform on Insurance Coverage before Pregnancy and the Timing of Prenatal Care Initiation
Willard Manning

A Test for Proportional Hazards Assumption within the Class of Exponential Conditional Mean Models
Willard Manning

Using the SF-12 Health Status Measure to Improve Predictions of Medical Expenditures
Willard Manning, John Fleishman, Joel Cohen, and Mark Kosinski

2006

The Effect of Health Insurance on the Near Elderly
Willard Manning

Effects of Hospitalists on Outcomes and Costs in a Multicenter Trial of Academic Hospitalists
David Meltzer

Evaluation of Randomized Trials Offering Financial Incentives for Substance Abuse Recovery
Willard Manning

Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data
Willard Manning

The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance
Bruce Meyer and Anthony Lo Sasso

More Hospitals Versus a Higher Volume of Cases
Willard Manning

Perceptions of HIV Risks among Married Couples in Malawi: Why Do Wives Worry More?
Shelley Clark

Protecting Girls from HIV/AIDS: The Case Against Child and Early Marriage
Shelley Clark, Judith Bruce, and Annie Dude

The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality
Tomas Philipson, Gary Becker, and Rodrigo Soares

Social Networks, Extra-Marital Sexual Partners, and Suspicion among Married Couples in Rural Malawi
Shelley Clark

State Insurance Regulation as an Impediment to Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Carl F. Ameringer

2005

Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?
Diane Whitmore

Economic Analysis of Health Care Markets
Tomas Philipson

Effect of Health Insurance Over Sixty
Willard Manning

Evaluation, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Program
Colm O'Muircheartaigh

FDA Obesity Project
Tomas Philipson

Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data
Willard Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy

The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance
Bruce Meyer and Anthony Lo Sasso

Hospital Competition and Case Volume on Mortality Rates
Willard Manning

Identity, Coalitions, and Influence: The Politics of Interest Group Networks in Health Policy
Michael Heaney

The Implications of Early Marriage for HIV/AIDS Policy
Shelley Clark and Judith Bruce

Three Essays in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Anirban Basu

Three Essays on Social Determinants of Child Health and Education in India: Progress towards Answers to Enduring Questions
Ankur Sarin

2004

America's Best Hospitals
Colm O'Muircheartaigh, Ann Burke, and Whitney Murphy

Association between Interruptions in Medicaid Coverage and Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Services
Willard Manning, J. Harman, N. Lurie, and J. Christianson

Can Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Identify the Value of Research?
David Meltzer

Comparing Alternative Models: Log vs. Cox Proportional Hazard?
Willard Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy

Continuity of Antibiotic Therapy in Patients Admitted from the Emergency Department
David Meltzer, Manish Shah, Jacquie Schmit, and William Croley

The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Health Care
Willard Manning

The Economic and Health Risk Trade-Offs of Swim Closures at a Lake Michigan Beach
Don Coursey

Generalized Modeling Approaches to Risk Adjustment of Skewed Outcomes Data
Willard Manning, Anirban Basu, and John Mullahy

How Do Residents Learn?
David Meltzer

Labor Market Costs of Illness: Prevalence Matters
Thomas DeLeire and Willard Manning

National Children’s Study
Robert T. Michael

Patient-Physician Communication about Out-of-Pocket Costs
David Meltzer

The Quality of Care through Managed Care: A Misguided Policy Debate?
Tomas Philipson

The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality
Tomas Philipson, Gary Becker, and Rodrigo Soares

School Lunches and Childhood Obesity
Diane Whitmore

State Social Capital and Individual Health Status
Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer Mellor

Theoretical Issues in Accounting for the Future Costs in Medical Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
David Meltzer

Transitions in Insurance Coverage from before Pregnancy through Delivery in Nine States, 1996–1999
Willard Manning, E. Adams, N. Gavin, and others

Waiting for Organ Transplant
David Meltzer

What Do People Buy When They Don’t Buy Health Insurance?
Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

2003

The Consequences of Uninsurance
Willard Manning

Does Competition under Medicare Prospective Payment Selectively Reduce Expenditures on High-Cost Patients?
David Meltzer, Jeanette Chung, and Anirban Basu

The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations: Within- and Between-Patent Competition in the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Industry
Tomas Philipson and Frank Lichtenberg

Early Marriage and HIV Risks in Sub-Saharan Africa
Shelley Clark

Effect of Alcohol Prices on Alcohol Dependence and Abuse
Willard Manning, S. Ferrill, and M. Fitch

Effects of Physician Experience on Costs and Outcomes on an Academic General Medicine Service: Results of a Trial of Hospitalists
David Meltzer and Willard Manning

Estimating Log Models: To Transform or Not to Transform
Willard Manning and John Mullahy

Family Size, Health Insurance, Medical Care
Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

Gender Preference and Child Outcome in India
Shelley Clark

The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change
Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

Improving Risk Adjustment for Medicare Capitated Reimbursement using Nonlinear Models
Willard Manning, P. Veaziem, and R. Kane

Labor Market Costs of Injury and Illness: Prevalence Matters
Willard Manning and Thomas DeLeire

On the Importance of Full versus Partial Age-Adjustment in Ecological Studies of Social Determinants of Mortality
Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer Mellor

Redesigning the Medicare Contract: Politics, Markets, and Agency
Edward Lawlor

What Do People Buy When They Don’t Buy Health Insurance
Helen Levy and Thomas DeLeire

2002

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work
Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy

Impact of Social Anxiety Disorder in Managed Care
Thomas DeLeire and David Katzelnick

Income Inequality and Health Status in the United States
Jennifer Mellor and Jeffrey Milyo

A Multi-Center Trial of Academic Hospitalists
David Meltzer

Researchers Evaluate Nation's Organ Transplant System
David Meltzer, Robert Gibbons, and Naihua Duan

The Value of Pain Relief
Carina Furnee, Marius Kemler, and Gerard Pfann

What Do We Really Know about whether Health Insurance Affects Health
Helen Levy and David Meltzer

2001

Aging and the Growth of Long-Term Care
Tomas J. Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla

Changes in Wage Discrimination Against People with Disabilities: 1984-1993
Thomas DeLeire

The Employment of People with Disabilities: Measuring the Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Thomas DeLeire

Is Inequality Bad for Your Health?
Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer Mellor

Longevity Complementarities Under Competing Risks
Tomas J. Philipson , William Dow, and Xavier Sala-I-Martin

Re-Examining the Evidence of an Ecological Association Between Income Inequality and Health
Jeffrey Milyo and Jennifer Mellor

Sex, Love, and Health in America: Private Choices and Public Policies
Robert T. Michael and Edward Laumann

Where are the Gaps in Disability Insurance Coverage
Helen Levy


 
Research Features
 
2009
 
How Does Childhood Poverty Impact Adult Body Mass Index?
Ariel Kalil, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, PhD’05, and Greg J. Duncan
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2008
 
Drug Safety: Risks and Benefits of Risk-Management Plans
David Meltzer
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The End of Life: The Value of Life and Terminal Care
Tomas Philipson, Gary S. Becker , and Kevin M. Murphy
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2007
 
The Effect of TANF on Mothers and Infants: Pre-Pregnancy and Early Prenatal Care Declines
Willard Manning, Norma I. Gavin , Kathleen Adams , and Cheryl Raskind-Hood
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Napping Reduces Physician Fatigue; May Reduce Doctor Error
David Meltzer and Vineet Arora
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2003
 
Effects of Less Demanding Work and Greater Food Supply on Weight
Tomas Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla
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How Income Inequality Affects Infant Mortality
Susan Mayer and Ankur Sarin
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2002
 
Limits of Medical Record Privacy and Patient Confidentiality
Norman M. Bradburn
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2000
 
How Technology Has Influenced Worldwide Obesity
Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner
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Increased Longevity Retires Traditional Nursing Homes
Tomas J. Philipson and Darius Lakdawalla
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Researchers Evaluate Nation's Organ Transplant System
David Meltzer, Robert D. Gibbons, Naihua Duan, and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Organ Procurement and Transplantation
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