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  • Does Higher Hospital Cost Imply Higher Quality of Care?
    Picone, Gabriel A.; Sloan, Frank; Chou, Shin-Yi; Taylor, Donald Jr. (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003)
    This study investigates whether higher input use per stay in the hospital (treatment intensity) and longer length of stay improve outcomes of care. We allow for endogeneity of intensity and length of stay by estimating a ...
  • Do Smokers Respond To Health Shocks?
    Smith, V. Kerry; Taylor, Donald Jr.; Sloan, Frank; Johnson, F. Reed; Desvousges, William H. (The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001)
    This paper reports the first effort to use data to evaluate how new information, acquired through exogenous health shocks, affects people's longevity expectations. We find that smokers react differently to health shocks ...
  • Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?
    Smith, V. Kerry; Jr, Donald H. Taylor; Sloan, Frank (American Economic Review, 2001)
    Many economists are convinced that when individuals are asked to formulate probabilities they are unlikely to do it correctly (Mark J. Machina, 1990). However, the same analysts would likely add that people do have a ...