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Item Hilltop Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Hospital Pricing Behavior(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-08-01) The Hilltop InstituteItem Transparency In Coverage: A New Tool For Promoting Provider Gender Equity?(Health Affairs, 2023-08-30) Henderson, Morgan; Mouslim, MorganeItem How New Data On Hospital “Discounted Cash Prices” Might Lead To Patient Savings(Health Affairs, 2021-11-08) Mouslim, Morgane; Henderson, MorganIn a new HealthAffairs blog post, Hilltop researchers Morgane Mouslim, DVM, ScM, and Morgan Henderson, PhD, describe their continued work on hospital price transparency. Mouslim and Henderson have been investigating hospital price transparency and the effects of the January 2021 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule that requires hospitals to publish the prices of their services.Item The Price You Pay: Hospitals are posting procedure costs online, but consumers say price tags can still be hard to find(InvestigateTV, 2023-08-07) Molina, Daniela; DePompa, Rachel; Romans, PaytonItem One Year Later, Where Are The 'Transparency In Coverage' Compliance Studies?(Health Affairs, 2023-09-19) Henderson, Morgan; Mouslim, MorganeItem HCA doctors say its cost-cutting is endangering Appalachian patients — a warning for the whole U.S. health care system(STAT, 2023-11-30) Bannow, TaraItem Data Transparency(Incremental Healthcare, 2022-01-24) Terhayden, Nick vanItem The Utility of Data from Long-Term Care Assessments for Reducing Repeated Hospital Encounters among Medicare-Medicaid Dually Eligible Beneficiaries(2023) Fakeye, Oludolapo; Rana, Prashant; Han, Fei; Henderson, Morgan; Stockwell , IanItem The Hilltop Institute at UMBC to launch hospital price transparency research with $282,000 NSF grant(StateofReform, 2022-09-21) Pasia, NicoleItem Hilltop Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Insurer Pricing Data(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-12-14) The Hilltop InstituteItem Healthcare Upside/Down: Pricing Impacting Financially Vulnerable(ECG Management Consultants, 2022) Dr. NickItem Hilltop Researchers Assess Compliance with Hospital Price Transparency Regulation over Time(The Hilltop Institute, 2023-01-27) The Hilltop InstituteItem Hilltop Researcher Co-Authors JAMA: Internal Medicine Article on Validity of Hospital Pricing Data(The Hilltop Institute, 2023-09-18) The Hilltop InstituteItem Cash Prices for Emergency Room Facility Fees Vary with Hospital and Regional Characteristics(The Hilltop Institute, 2022-07-06) The Hilltop InstituteItem Reassessing the Contributions of Black Inventors to the Golden Age of Innovation(The Economic and Business History Society, 2023-11-27) Andrews, Michael; Rothwell, Jonathan T.During the Second Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that Black Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, Black Americans tended to live in entirely different institutional environments than other Americans, particularly in the South under Jim Crow laws. Using a new database that matches inventors to census records, we find that patenting rates for Black Americans living in the North were very similar to patenting rates for White Americans from 1870 to 1940; in some decades and states, Northern Black patenting rates exceeded the patenting rate for White Americans. In the South, patenting rates were low for both Black and White Americans, while patenting rates for Northern Black residents were far higher than those for Southern White residents. We additionally find that Black Americans from all regions were responsible for more patents than immigrants from all but two countries (Germany and England). In total, we estimate that African Americans invented more than 50,000 patents over the period. Thus, when freed of extreme political oppression, Black Americans demonstrated a level of inventiveness that matched the most inventive groups in US history.Item Income Mobility in Costa Rica, 2001-2007(Universidad De Costa Rica, 2014-01-01) Rowe, Samuel; Gindling, T.H.; Trejos, Juan DiegoIn this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes (2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year. We find that there is substantial year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica, especially in the middle of the income distribution. We also identify the factors that most affect year-to-year income mobility in Costa Rica. We find that per capita income is conditionally convergent; low-income families are more likely to experience an increase in income than are high-income families. Aside from initial per capita income, the three most important factors that explain changes in per capita household income in Costa Rica are, in order of importance: (1) changes in the employment status of household members; (2) changes in the number of dependents (children, elderly and other non-working members) in the household; and (3) the education of household members, especially the household head.Item Over-the-counter rapid antigen tests can help slow the spread of COVID-19 – here’s how to use them effectively(The Conversation, 2021-09-10) McLaren, ZoeThe rise of the highly transmissible delta variant around the U.S. has increased demand for rapid antigen COVID-19 tests that can be purchased from a pharmacy without a prescription, used at home, school or work and that give results in 15 minutes.Item One-Size-Fits-All Mask Guidance Isn’t Going to Work Anymore(Wired, 2021-05-20) McLaren, ZoeThe "choose your own adventure" phase of the pandemic calls for better alternatives. Time for policies to reflect that.Item Can Skill Mismatch Explain Geographic and Time Variation in the Returns to College Majors? Evidence from Online Job Postings(2018-05-31) Berkes, Enrico; Mohnen, Paul; Taska, BlediIn this paper, we study how skill-specific initial labor market conditions affect early career outcomes of college graduates. Exploiting data on the near-universe of online job postings in the U.S. between 2010 and 2016, we build a new measure of skill mismatch which captures how well an individual’s college major matches the occupational composition of local labor demand around the time of graduation. Intuitively, a college graduate experiences skill mismatch when only a small fraction of online job postings in her city are suitable for her major in the year she graduates. Exploiting variation in skill mismatch across majors, cities and graduation cohorts, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our measure leads to a 3 percent decline in initial wages. Skill mismatch is also associated with a greater probability of being initially unemployed or employed in a part-time job, as well as a lower probability of being employed in a college occupation or one of the top occupations by college major. While the effects on unemployment, part-time employment and employment in college occupations gradually fade over time, the effects on wages and major-occupation fit persist up to 6 years after graduation. Our findings highlight the importance of having the right skills in the right place at the right time.Item Local Corruption and Misreported Income: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit(2017-07-07) Berkes, Enrico; Marchingiglio, RiccardoWe study the relationship between local corruption and income misreporting in the context of the EITC program. Using a newly assembled dataset of corruption at the MSA level, we observe that public officials’ corruption predicts more than 70% of the variation in bunching in the distribution of EITC-eligible self-employed workers’ reported income. Using a research design that exploits exogenous variation in institutional accountability, we find that a one standard deviation rise in our corruption measure causes sharp bunching among self-employed to increase by 0.60 to 0.83 standard deviations. This is consistent with a behavioral model that embeds social stigma.