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Darius N. Lakdawalla — Publications

Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market 2020
On Average, Physicians Spend Nearly 11 Percent of Their 40-Year Careers with an Open, Unresolved Malpractice Claim 2013
The Role of Specialty Drugs in Private Sector Healthcare Spending 2013
The Value of Diagnostic Testing in Personalized Medicine 2013
An Analysis of Whether Higher Health Care Spending in the United States Versus Europe Is 'Worth It' in the Case of Cancer 2012
How Cancer Patients Value Hope and the Implications for Cost-Effectiveness Assessments of High-Cost Cancer Therapies 2012
The Large Social Value Resulting from Use of Statins Warrants Steps to Improve Adherence and Broaden Treatment 2012
Outcomes of Medical Malpractice Litigation Against US Physicians 2012
Patients Value Metastatic Cancer Therapy More Highly Than Is Typically Shown Through Traditional Estimates 2012
The Benefits from Giving Makers of Conventional 'Small Molecule' Drugs Longer Exclusivity Over Clinical Trial Data 2011
Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight 2011
Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty 2011
Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty 2011
Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research 2011
An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer 2010
The Fiscal Consequences of Trends in Population Health 2010
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Users of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Analysis of Claims Data 2010
Valuing Health Technologies at NICE: Recommendations for Improved Incorporation of Treatment Value in HTA 2010
Annual Expenditures for Nursing Home Care: Private and Public Payer Price Growth, 1977 to 2004 2009
An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer 2009
The Effect of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Revenues: Experience in Nineteen Countries 2009
Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight 2009
Innovation and the Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance 2009
Insurer Bargaining and Negotiated Drug Prices in Medicare Part D 2009
International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences 2009
Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health 2009
U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace 2009
The Welfare Effects of Medical Malpractice Liability 2009
Chronic Disease and Severe Disability Among Working-Age Populations 2008
Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly 2008
Regulating Drug Prices: U.S. Policy Alternatives in a Global Context 2008
How Does Terrorism Risk Vary Across Space and Time? An Analysis Based on the Israeli Experience 2007
Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come 2007
The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance 2007
Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance, and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk-Transfer 2006
The Economics of Teacher Quality 2006
Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract 2006
HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior 2006
Intellectual Property and Marketing 2006
The Labor Market Value of Health Improvements 2006
Optimal Liability for Terrorism 2006
Consequences of Health Trends and Medical Innovation for the Future Elderly 2005
Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? New Answers to an Old Question 2005
Does Medicare Benefit the Poor? Appendix 2005
Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly: Implications for Medicare 2005
The Health and Cost Consequences of Obesity Among the Future Elderly 2005
How Does Health Insurance Affect Workers’ Compensation Filing? 2005
Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets 2005
Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity 2005
Welfare-Enhancing Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity 2005
Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? 2004
Disability Forecasts and Future Medicare Costs 2004
Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly: Final Report 2004
HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior 2004
Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism 2004
Issues and Options for Government Intervention in the Market for Terrorism Insurance 2004
RAND Review: Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2004 2004
Social Insurance and the Design of Innovation Incentives 2004
Terrorism Insurance Policy and the Public Good 2004
Time-Inconsistency and Welfare 2004
Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Appendix 2003
Forecasting the Nursing Home Population 2003
Is Nursing Home Demand Affected by the Decline in Age Difference Between Spouses? 2003
A Response to the Points By Manton and Williamson 2003
Insurance, Self-Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism 2002
Quantity Over Quality 2002
The Rise in Old Age Longevity and the Market for Long-Term Care 2002
Technological Change and the Growth of Obesity: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination 2002

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