Anwita Mahajan

When prices are regulated, such as in outpatient dialysis, mergers reduce capacity but generate long-run quality gains, imposing short-run costs on consumers through transitional disruptions but yielding long-run benefits.

Accountable care organizations, which are networks of hospitals and providers jointly responsible for the quality of care, reduce physician employment and hours worked.

Federal aid to state and local governments during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced mortality by increasing vaccination and testing.

State minimum wage increases reduced employer-sponsored health insurance coverage and shifted low-income workers toward Medicaid coverage.

The effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance coverage remained stable throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving employer coverage and uninsurance largely unchanged despite substantial labor market churn.

Long-standing differences in state eligibility rules explain much of the cross-state variation in enrollment dynamics during the implementation and unwinding of continuous coverage, while state administrative policies aimed at easing the unwinding friction played a more limited role than expected.

The 6.2 percentage point increase in the federal Medicaid reimbursement rate to states offset the aggregate costs of maintaining Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, but two-thirds of states experienced net fiscal deficits.

Pandemic-era federal grants produced a “ratchet effect” in state spending; as federal funds declined, non-federal sources largely stepped in to sustain spending, with effects varying across transportation, education, and Medicaid.

LLMs can efficiently and comprehensively audit adherence to pre-committed research plans, even when plans are narrative and describe contingencies, substantially reducing the human labor required for such audits.

The effects of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance coverage remained stable throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving employer coverage and uninsurance largely unchanged despite substantial labor market churn.