REPORTS, NOTES & BOOK REVIEWS
“Big Ideas in Health Economics,” Health Affairs 2018; 37(9). (Published online 4 September 2018:
10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0981).
“The Costly Paradox of Health Care Technology,” The MIT Technology Review (September 2013).
“Toward a 21st-Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform,” (with 49 other co-signers), Annals of Internal Medicine 150(7) (April 7, 2009): 493-5.
“The Elusive Connection between Health Care Spending and Quality” (with A. Chandra, Fisher, and Goodman), Health Affairs January/February 2009; 28(1): w119-w123. (published online 4 December 2008; 10.1377/hlthaff.28.1.w119).
“Individual Retirement Accounts,” in S. N. Durlauf and L.E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
Comment on “Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look,” by Steven F. Venti and David A. Wise, in D. Wise (ed.) Perspective on the Economics of Aging. University of Chicago Press and NBER (2004).
Comment on “The Economics of Bequests in Pensions and Social Security,” by Martin Feldstein and Elena Ranguelova, in Martin Feldstein and Jeffrey Leibman (eds.) The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform Chicago: NBER and the University of Chicago Press (2002).
Review of Henry Aaron (ed), Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics in The Journal of Economic Literature 34(3) (September 2001).
Skinner J.S. Leapfrog Patient Safety Standards: Economic Implications. (with JD Birkmeyer and CM Birkmeyer) Washington, D.C.: The Leapfrog Group, 2001.
Comment on “Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation,” by Paul Ellickson, Scott Stern, and Manuel Trajtenberg, in David M. Cutler and Ernst R. Berndt (eds) Medical CareOutput and Productivity. Chicago: NBER and University of Chicago Press (2001).
Comments on chapters by Deaton and Paxson, Lazear, and Poterba, Venti, and Wise, in David Wise (ed.) Studies in the Economics of Aging Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1994).
Review of Richard Bird, Tax Policy and Economic Development, in National Tax Journal (March 1993).
“Raising Revenue Without Raising Tax Rates,” (with Dan Feenberg) Tax Notes (February 15, 1993).
“Individual Retirement Accounts,” New Palgrave Encyclopedia of Money and Finance 1993.
“The Elusive Link Between IRAs and Saving” in Marvin Kosters (ed.) Personal Savings, Consumption, and Tax Policy. Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute (1992).
Review of Carolyn L. Weaver (ed.) Social Security’s Looming Surplus, in Journal of Economic Literature (March 1992).
Comment on MaCurdy and Shoven, in David Wise (ed.) Issues in the Economics of Aging. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER (1992).
Review of Dwight Lee (ed.), Taxation and the Deficit Economy, in Journal of Economic Literature (March 1988).
Review of Charls Walker and Mark Bloomfield (eds.), New Directions in Federal Tax Policy for the 1980s in Journal of Economic Literature (December 1984).