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    • Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End-of-Life Care 

      Gruber, Jonathan; Howard, David H; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Caputi, Theodore L (American Economic Association, 2025-01)
      The Medicare hospice program is intended to provide palliative care to terminal patients, but patients with long stays in hospice are highly profitable, motivating concerns about overuse among the Alzheimer's and Dementia ...

    • The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach 

      Wolf, Christian K (American Economic Association, 2023-08)
      I give conditions under which changes in private spending are accommodated in general equilibrium exactly like changes in aggregate fiscal expenditure. Under such demand equivalence, researchers can use time series evidence ...

    • Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital 

      Herbst, Daniel; Hendren, Nathaniel (American Economic Association, 2024-07)
      We examine whether adverse selection has unraveled private markets for equity and state-contingent debt contracts for financing higher education. Using survey data on beliefs, we show a typical college-goer would have to ...