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Boris Viktor Vabson

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Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Stanford University

Stanford, California (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg & Samantha Burn & Timothy Layton & Boris Vabson, 2023. "Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization Restrictions in Medicare," NBER Working Papers 30878, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg & Timothy Layton & Boris Vabson & Adelina Yanyue Wang, 2021. "The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D," NBER Working Papers 28331, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Timothy J. Layton & Nicole Maestas & Daniel Prinz & Boris Vabson, 2019. "Private vs. Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid," NBER Working Papers 26042, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Mark Duggan & Jonathan Gruber & Boris Vabson, 2015. "The Efficiency Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits," NBER Working Papers 21650, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Mark Duggan & Amanda Starc & Boris Vabson, 2014. "Who Benefits when the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program," NBER Working Papers 19989, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Duggan, Mark & Starc, Amanda & Vabson, Boris, 2016. "Who benefits when the government pays more? Pass-through in the Medicare Advantage program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 50-67.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg & Samantha Burn & Timothy Layton & Boris Vabson, 2023. "Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization Restrictions in Medicare," NBER Working Papers 30878, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Lee, Ajin & Vabson, Boris, 2024. "The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).

  2. Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg & Timothy Layton & Boris Vabson & Adelina Yanyue Wang, 2021. "The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D," NBER Working Papers 28331, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Abe Dunn & Joshua D. Gottlieb & Adam Hale Shapiro & Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl & Pietro Tebaldi, 2023. "A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away," Working Paper Series 2023-03, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
    2. Drake, Coleman & Ryan, Conor & Dowd, Bryan, 2022. "Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
    3. Martin Gaynor & Kate Ho & Robert Town, 2014. "The Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets," NBER Working Papers 19800, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Christina Gravert, 2024. "From Intent to Inertia: Experimental Evidence from the Retail Electricity Market," CESifo Working Paper Series 11139, CESifo.
    5. Drake, Coleman & Anderson, David & Cai, Sih-Ting & Sacks, Daniel W., 2023. "Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    6. Lynn Conell‐Price & Carolyn Kousky & Howard Kunreuther, 2022. "Encouraging resiliency through autoenrollment in supplemental flood insurance coverage," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 89(4), pages 1109-1137, December.
    7. Paul Heidhues & Mats Köster & Botond Kőszegi, 2024. "A Theory of Digital Ecosystems," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 329, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
    8. Steffen Altmann & Andreas Grunewald & Jonas Radbruch, 2024. "The Double Dividend of Attention-Releasing Policies," CESifo Working Paper Series 11069, CESifo.
    9. Steffen Altmann & Andreas Grunewald & Jonas Radbruch, 2024. "The Double Dividend of Nudges," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 503, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.

  3. Timothy J. Layton & Nicole Maestas & Daniel Prinz & Boris Vabson, 2019. "Private vs. Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid," NBER Working Papers 26042, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Juan Pablo Atal & Jose Ignacio Cuesta & Felipe Gonzalez & Cristobal Otero, 2023. "The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets," Working Papers 951, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
    2. Lee, Ajin, 2020. "How do hospitals respond to managed care? Evidence from at-risk newborns," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
    3. Lee, Ajin & Vabson, Boris, 2024. "The value of improving insurance quality: Evidence from long-run Medicaid attrition," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).

  4. Mark Duggan & Jonathan Gruber & Boris Vabson, 2015. "The Efficiency Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits," NBER Working Papers 21650, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Knutsson, Daniel & Tyrefors, Björn, 2020. "The Quality and Efficiency Between Public and Private Firms: Evidence from Ambulance Services," Working Paper Series 1365, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 01 Jul 2021.
    2. Soares, Rodrigo R. & Rocha, Rudi & Szklo, Michel, 2021. "American Delusion: Life Expectancy and Welfare in the US from an International Perspective," IZA Discussion Papers 14517, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Maria Polyakova, 2016. "Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-specific Price Elasticities and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D," NBER Working Papers 22277, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Anita Mukherjee, 2021. "Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 408-438, May.
    5. Elizabeth L. Munnich & Michael R. Richards, 2020. "Treatment flows after outsourcing public insurance provision: Evidence from Florida Medicaid," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(11), pages 1343-1363, November.
    6. Michael R. Richards & Coady Wing, 2019. "Recruiting and retaining dental labor in federal facilities: Harder than pulling teeth?," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(11), pages 1356-1369, November.
    7. Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Yunan Ji & Neale Mahoney, 2020. "Randomized trial shows healthcare payment reform has equal-sized spillover effects on patients not targeted by reform," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117(32), pages 18939-18947, August.
    8. Michael Geruso & Timothy Layton & Daniel Prinz, 2019. "Screening in Contract Design: Evidence from the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association, vol. 11(2), pages 64-107, May.
    9. Vilsa Curto & Liran Einav & Amy Finkelstein & Jonathan D. Levin & Jay Bhattacharya, 2017. "Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare," NBER Working Papers 23090, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

  5. Mark Duggan & Amanda Starc & Boris Vabson, 2014. "Who Benefits when the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program," NBER Working Papers 19989, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Sharat Ganapati & Joseph S. Shapiro & Reed Walker, 2016. "Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2038, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
    2. Pilny, Adam & Wübker, Ansgar & Ziebarth, Nicolas R., 2017. "Introducing Risk Adjustment and Free Health Plan Choice in Employer-Based Health Insurance: Evidence from Germany," VfS Annual Conference 2017 (Vienna): Alternative Structures for Money and Banking 168121, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Pietro Tebaldi, 2015. "Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Analysis of the Californian Market under the ACA," Discussion Papers 15-012, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
    4. Sharat Ganapati & Joseph S. Shapiro & Reed Walker, 2020. "Energy Cost Pass-Through in US Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(2), pages 303-342, April.
    5. Michele Fioretti & Hongming Wang, 2019. "Subsidizing Inequality: Performance Pay and Risk Selection in Medicare," SciencePo Working papers hal-03393070, HAL.
    6. Amanda Starc & Robert J. Town, 2015. "Externalities and Benefit Design in Health Insurance," NBER Working Papers 21783, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Haizhen Lin & Ian M. McCarthy, 2023. "Multimarket Contact in Health Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Advantage," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(1), pages 212-255, March.
    8. Marika Cabral & Michael Geruso & Neale Mahoney, 2014. "Do Larger Health Insurance Subsidies Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage," NBER Working Papers 20470, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Carey, Colleen, 2021. "Sharing the burden of subsidization: Evidence on pass-through from a subsidy revision in Medicare Part D," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).
    10. Srhoj, Stjepan & Dragojević, Melko, 2021. "Public procurement and supplier job creation: Insights from auctions," MPRA Paper 109997, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Keaton S. Miller & Amil Petrin & Robert Town & Michael Chernew, 2019. "Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies," NBER Working Papers 25616, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    12. Michele Fioretti & Hongming Wang, 2021. "Performance Pay in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Medicare," Post-Print hal-03791843, HAL.
    13. David Dranove & Christopher Ody & Amanda Starc, 2017. "A Dose of Managed Care: Controlling Drug Spending in Medicaid," NBER Working Papers 23956, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    14. Jason Abaluck & Mauricio Caceres Bravo & Peter Hull & Amanda Starc, 2020. "Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans," Working Papers 2020-108, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics.
    15. Katherine Baicker & Jacob A. Robbins, 2015. "Medicare Payments and System-Level Health-Care Use: The Spillover Effects of Medicare Managed Care," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 1(4), pages 399-431, Fall.
    16. Nina Goridko & Robert Nizhegorodtsev, 2018. "The Growth Points of Regional Economy and Regression Estimation for Branch Investment Multipliers," Economy of region, Centre for Economic Security, Institute of Economics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 1(1), pages 29-42.
    17. Cabral, Marika & Geruso, Michael & Mahoney, Neale, 2014. "Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage," Working Papers 254, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
    18. Vilsa Curto & Liran Einav & Jonathan Levin & Jay Bhattacharya, 2021. "Can Health Insurance Competition Work? Evidence from Medicare Advantage," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 129(2), pages 570-606.
    19. Mark Duggan & Jonathan Gruber & Boris Vabson, 2015. "The Efficiency Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits," NBER Working Papers 21650, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    20. McCarthy, Ian M., 2018. "Quality disclosure and the timing of insurers’ adjustments: Evidence from medicare advantage," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 13-26.
    21. Timothy J. Layton & Nicole Maestas & Daniel Prinz & Boris Vabson, 2019. "Private vs. Public Provision of Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicaid," NBER Working Papers 26042, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    22. Callejas, Jerónimo & Mohapatra, Debi Prasad, 2021. "Welfare effects of public procurement of medicines: Evidence from Ecuador," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    23. Naoki Aizawa & You Suk Kim, 2015. "Advertising and Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015-101, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    24. Jason Brown & Mark Duggan & Ilyana Kuziemko & William Woolston, 2014. "How Does Risk Selection Respond to Risk Adjustment? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 104(10), pages 3335-3364, October.
    25. Kurt Lavetti & Kosali Simon, 2016. "Strategic Formulary Design in Medicare Part D Plans," NBER Working Papers 22338, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    26. Karen Stockley & Thomas McGuire & Christopher Afendulis & Michael E. Chernew, 2014. "Premium Transparency in the Medicare Advantage Market: Implications for Premiums, Benefits, and Efficiency," NBER Working Papers 20208, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    27. Pelech, Daria, 2018. "Paying more for less? Insurer competition and health plan generosity in the Medicare Advantage program," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 77-92.
    28. Naoki Aizawa & You Suk Kim, 2020. "Public and Private Provision of Information in Market-Based Public Programs: Evidence from Advertising in Health Insurance Marketplaces," NBER Working Papers 27695, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    29. Sharat Ganapati & Joseph S. Shapiro & Reed Walker, 2016. "The Incidence of Carbon Taxes in U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons from Energy Cost Pass-through," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 2038R2, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, revised Apr 2017.
    30. Laurence C. Baker & Kate Bundorf & Daniel Kessler, 2018. "The Effects of Medicare Advantage on Opioid Use," NBER Working Papers 25327, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    31. Christopher C. Afendulis & Michael E. Chernew & Daniel P. Kessler, 2017. "The Effect of Medicare Advantage on Hospital Admissions and Mortality," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 3(2), pages 254-279, Spring.
    32. Leemore Dafny & Jonathan Gruber & Christopher Ody, 2015. "More Insurers Lower Premiums: Evidence from Initial Pricing in the Health Insurance Marketplaces," American Journal of Health Economics, MIT Press, vol. 1(1), pages 53-81, Winter.
    33. Marika Cabral & Colleen Carey & Jinyeong Son, 2023. "Partial Outsourcing of Public Programs: Evidence on Determinants of Choice in Medicare," NBER Working Papers 31141, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    34. Francesco Decarolis & Andrea Guglielmo & Calvin Luscombe, 2017. "Open Enrollment Periods and Plan Choices," NBER Working Papers 24156, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    35. Anell, Anders & Dackehag, Margareta & Dietrichson, Jens & Ellegård, Lina Maria & Kjellsson, Gustav, 2022. "Better Off by Risk Adjustment? Socioeconomic Disparities in Care Utilization in Sweden Following a Payment Reform," Working Papers 2022:15, Lund University, Department of Economics, revised 12 Mar 2024.
    36. Baker, Laurence C. & Bundorf, M. Kate & Kessler, Daniel P., 2020. "The effects of medicare advantage on opioid use," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    37. De Witte, Kristof & Geys, Benny & Schönhage, Nanna Lauritz, 2018. "Strategic public policy around population thresholds," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 46-58.
    38. Wozny, Florian, 2024. "Tax Incidence in Heterogeneous Markets: The Pass-through of Air Passenger Taxes on Airfares," IZA Discussion Papers 16783, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    39. Joshua D. Gottlieb & Maria Polyakova & Kevin Rinz & Hugh Shiplett & Victoria Udalova, 2020. "Who Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings," Working Papers 20-23, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

Articles

  1. Duggan, Mark & Starc, Amanda & Vabson, Boris, 2016. "Who benefits when the government pays more? Pass-through in the Medicare Advantage program," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 50-67.
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  1. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (5) 2014-03-30 2015-01-09 2015-11-07 2019-07-22 2023-02-20. Author is listed
  2. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (5) 2014-03-30 2015-01-09 2015-11-07 2019-07-22 2021-02-01. Author is listed
  3. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 2019-07-22
  4. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2014-03-30

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