Transit and treatment: Aligning systems to address substance use in Connecticut.

Objective: Test hypotheses that proximity to new transit improves substance use disorder treatment provider cost efficiency (i.e., economies of scale and scope).

The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on New York City real estate: First evidence.

We investigate whether pandemic-induced contagion disamenities and income effects arising due to COVID-related unemployment adversely affected real estate prices of one- or two-family owner-occupied properties across New York City (NYC). First, ordinary least squares hedonic results indicate that greater COVID case numbers are concentrated in neighborhoods with lower-valued properties. Second, we use a repeat-sales approach for the period 2003-2020, and we find that both the possibility of contagion and pandemic-induced income effects adversely impacted home sale prices.

Too Big, Too Small, or Just Right? Cost-Efficiency of Environmental Inspection Services in Connecticut.

Objective: To assess optimal activity size/mix of Connecticut local public health jurisdictions, through estimating economies of scale/scope/specialization for environmental inspections/services.

Data Sources/study Setting: Connecticut's 74 local health jurisdictions (LHJs) must provide environmental health services, but their efficiency or reasons for wide cost variation are unknown. The public health system is decentralized, with variation in organizational structure/size.

Dynamics of the mental health workforce: investigating the composition of physicians and other health providers.

We evaluate how changes to mental health workforce levels, composition, and degree of labor substitution, may impact typical practice output. Using a generalized Leontief production function and data from 134 U.S.

Health-care service utilization in substance abusers receiving contingency management and standard care treatments.

Aim:   To determine the impact of standard care and contingency management treatments on the utilization of general health-care services by substance abusers. PARTICIPANTS, DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS:  This secondary analysis pooled 1028 treatment-seeking substance abusers from five randomized clinical trials that compared the effects of standard care (SC, n = 362) to standard care plus contingency management (CM, n = 666). In each trial, subjects in the CM condition showed significantly greater reductions in substance use than their SC counterparts.