Topic: Jonathan Gruber
If you remember when diabetes was called ? Before Obamacare became the law of the land, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber spoke on its behalf as a supposed independent voice. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) paid him nearly $400,000 to ...
In SuperFreakonomics, we wrote about the very mixed evidence concerning health outcomes when doctors go on strike or leave town for conventions. A recent study by my friend Jonathan Gruber, an economist at MIT, and co-author Samuel Kleiner, finds that things go ...
TWISTING THE ARMS OF THE UNINSURED How much is health insurance worth to you? In the bill the Senate Finance Committee approved on Oct. 13--prodded along by Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)--there are no fines in 2013, the first year it ...
Gene expression levels vary heritably, with ~25-35% of the loci affecting expression acting in cis. Our experiment's robust biological and technical replication enabled precise estimates of variation in allelic expression on a high-throughput SNP genotyping platform. We observed concordant, significant differential ...
REFORM AND JOBS The business community has embraced the idea of health-care reform, hoping that Washington will come up with a method for reining in runaway medical costs. Lobbyists and CEOs are arguing before Congress that pay-or-play would cause many employers to ...
After only two months in office, President Barack Obama is getting skewered by many of his erstwhile admirers for his supposed incompetence, and veterans of the much-maligned Bush White House can't help but feel a certain rueful sympathy. But Obama is ...
Going to church probably causes you to vote, and election betting markets are nothing new. The first, by Alan Gerber, Jonathan Gruber, and Daniel M. Hungerman, makes clever use of a shock to the system - the repeal of Sunday blue laws - to ...
There is an interesting paper by the economists Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Henry Saffer that sorts through many factors (including per capita number of restaurants, portion sizes and prices, etc. But Jonathan Gruber and Michael Frakes have written a paper that ...
Health Professionals, Once Largely Republican Givers, Are Now Tilting Toward DemocratsHealth care professionals are giving Democrats a second look after more than a decade of opening their wallets in favor of Republican candidates.The shift in giving is apparent in the presidential ...
Health care professionals are giving Democrats a second look after more than a decade of opening their wallets in favor of Republican candidates.The shift in giving is apparent in the presidential contest, where leading Democrats are raising more cash from doctors ...
