2007

Chandra A, Staiger D, “Productivity Spillovers in Heath Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks”  Journal of Political Economy (2007);115(1):103-140. *This article won two awards in 2008: The Kenneth Arrow Award for the best health economics article published in 2007, and the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact on Medical and Health Research Award from Research! America.

Wennberg, John E., Elliott S. Fisher, Jonathan S. Skinner and Kristen K. Bronner, “Extending the P4P Agenda, Part 2: How Medicare Can Reduce Waste And  Improve The Care Of The Chronically Ill” Health Affairs. (2007); 26(6):1575-1585.

Baicker, Katherine, Elliott S. Fisher and Amitabh Chandra,”Malpractice Liability Costs And The Practice of Medicine In The Medicare Program”, Health Affairs (2007); 26(3):841-852.

Fisher, Elliott S., Douglas O. Staiger, Julie P.W. Bynum and Daniel J. Gottlieb, “Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff,” Health Affairs (2007):w44-w57.

Stukel TA, Elliott S. Fisher, David E. Wennberg, D.A. Alter, Daniel J. Gottlieb, and M.J. Vermeulen, “Analysis of observational studies in the presence of treatment selection bias: effects of invasive cardiac management on AMI survival using propensity score and instrumental variable methods,” JAMA (2007);297(3):278-285.

Barnato, Amber, M.B. Herndon, D. Anthony, P. Gallagher, J. Skinner, J. Bynum, E. Fisher, “Are Regional Variations in End-of-Life Care Intensity Explained by Patient Preferences? A Study of the U.S. Medicare Population” Medical Care. (2007);45(5):386-393.

“Technological Diffusion from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers” (with D. Staiger). in E. Berndt and C.M. Hulten (eds.) Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches. University of Chicago Press and NBER (2007):545-70.

Skinner, Jonathan, “Are You Sure You’re Saving Enough for Retirement?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, (2007);21(3):59-80.