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  • Are Alcohol Excise Taxes Good For Us? Short and Long-Term Effects on Mortality Rates
    Cook, Philip; Ostermann, Jan; Sloan, Frank (SSRN eLibrary, 2005)
    results from a 30-year panel of the state-level data indicate that changes in alcohol-excise taxes cause a reduction in drinking and lower all-cause mortality in the short run. But those results do not fully capture the ...
  • Are For-Profit Hospital Conversions Harmful to Patients and to Medicare?
    Picone, Gabriel; Chou, Shin-Yi; Sloan, Frank (RAND Journal of Economics, 2002)
    We examine how changes in hospital ownership to and from for-profit status affect quality and Medicare payments per hospital stay. We hypothesize that hospitals converting to for-profit ownership boost postacquisition ...
  • Are mature smokers misinformed?
    Khwaja, Ahmed; Silverman, Dan; Sloan, Frank; Wang, Yang (Journal of Health Economics, 2009)
    While there are many reasons to continue to smoke in spite of its consequences for health, the concern that many smoke because they misperceive the risks of smoking remains a focus of public discussion and motivates tobacco ...
  • Competition between non-profit and for-profit health insurers
    Adamache, Killard W; Sloan, Frank (Journal of Health Economics, 1983)
    This study investigates the effects of tax, regulatory, and reimbursement policies and other factors exogenous to the health insurance market on the relative price (to commercial insurers) paid by Blue Cross plans for ...
  • Cost of capital to the hospital sector
    Sloan, Frank; Valvona, Joseph; Hassan, Mahmud; Morrisey, Michael A (Journal of Health Economics, 1988)
    This paper provides estimates of the cost of equity and debt capital to for-profit and non-profit hospitals in the U.S. for the years 1972-83. The cost of equity is estimated using, alternatively, the Capital Asset Pricing ...
  • Determinants of Physicians' Fees
    Steinwald, Bruce; Sloan, Frank (Journal of Business, 1974-10)
    Of the many -physician decisions that have been studied, pricing of specific medical procedures is of particular interest, given the recent inflationary trend in medical care prices and the widely held view that medical ...
  • 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 ...
  • Effects of Regulation on Hospital Costs and Input Use
    Sloan, Frank; Steinwald, Bruce (Journal of Law & Economics, 1980-04)
    In the first half of this century, most regulations affecting hospitals were designed to promote quality assurance through accreditation and licensure of facilities and personnel. Then health planning, initially on a ...
  • Effects of teaching on hospital costs
    Sloan, Frank; Feldman, Roger D; Steinwald, A. Bruce (Journal of Health Economics, 1983)
    This study estimates effects of undergraduate and graduate medical education on hospital costs, using a national sample of 367 U.S. community hospitals observed in 1974 and 1977. Data on other cost determinants, such as ...
  • Effects of Tort Liability and Insurance on Heavy Drinking and Drinking and Driving
    Sloan, Frank; Reilly, Bridget A; Schenzler, Christoph (Journal of Law & Economics, 1995-04)
    Using self-reported data on patterns of alcohol use among individuals from the 1989-90 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveys, this study investigates effects of tort liability and third- and first-party insurance, alcohol prices, ...
  • Equity and accuracy in medical malpractice insurance pricing
    Sloan, Frank; Hassan, Mahmud (Journal of Health Economics, 1990)
    This study examines alternative classification approaches for setting medical malpractice insurance premiums. Insurers generally form risk classification categories on factors other than the physician's own loss experience. ...
  • Estimation of Seemingly Unrelated Tobit Regressions via the EM Algorithm
    Huang, Cliff J; Sloan, Frank; Adamache, Killard W (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1987)
    An expectation-maximum (EM) likelihood algorithm is used to estimate two seemingly unrelated Tobit regressions in which the dependent variables are truncated normal. An illustrative example on the determination of the ...
  • Experience Rating: Does It Make Sense for Medical Malpractice Insurance
    Sloan, Frank (American Economic Review, 1990)
    The tort system of which medical mal- practice is part has two functions-to com- pensate victims of injuries due to negligence of another party, and to deter such negli- gence. Although the system seems to per- form its ...
  • Government and the Regulation of Hospital Care
    Sloan, Frank (American Economic Review, 1982)
    Both federal and state governments have responded to the rapid rise in expenditures on hospital care by implementing a variety of regulatory approaches. These programs fall into three categories. Rate and revenue regulation ...
  • Hospital Investment Decisions and the Cost of Capital
    Wedig, Gerard J; Hassan, Mahmud; Sloan, Frank (Journal of Business, 1989-10)
    Hospital investment decisions depend on several factors that are not relevant to the typical for- profit firm. First, most hospitals are not-for-profit organizations. Roughly 60% are privately owned not-for-profits (NFPs); ...
  • Hospital Ownership Conversions: Defining the Appropriate Public Oversight Role
    Sloan, Frank (Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2002)
    This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on the effects of hospital ownership conversions on quality of care and provision of public goods, such as uncompensated care, and presents new results on these topics based on ...
  • Hospital rate review: A theory and an empirical review
    Sloan, Frank (Journal of Health Economics, 1984)
    This paper presents a theory of the effects of rate review on hospital operations and organization. Its purpose is to explain the way in which hospitals have responded to regulation. In the development of this theory, the ...
  • How Costly Are Smokers to Other People? Longitudinal Evidence on the Near Elderly
    Picone, Gabriel; Sloan, Frank (Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2001)
    Many studies have estimated the cost of smoking. In recent years, such estimates have been widely used in litigation against the tobacco companies. Both longitudinal and cross-sectional methods have been used. On balance, ...
  • Liability, Risk Perceptions, and Precautions at Bars
    Sloan, Frank (Journal of Law & Economics, 2000-10)
    Are state laws, regulatory practices, and allocation of public resources for enforcement reflected in perceptions by bar owners/managers that they will be cited or sued if they fail to exercise care? Among policies, which ...