Tiered cost sharing and health care demand.

In this paper, I study tiered cost sharing, an innovative incentive structure designed to steer patients toward low-cost providers using large out-of-pocket price differentials. Using administrative data from New Hampshire, where two large insurers utilize tiered pricing programs, I estimate the effects of tiering on choices and spending for common gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures. I first conduct a difference-in-differences analysis using the rollout of one insurer's tiered option.

County-level estimates of excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has been largely monitored using death certificates containing reference to COVID-19.