Neale Mahoney
@nealemahoney
Professor @StanfordEcon. Incoming Director @SIEPR. Former @WhiteHouse National Economic Council. Watches soccer, reads history, listens to all types of music.
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https://nmahoney.people.stanford.edu/ 25-12-2008 17:43:42
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The rare pairing of an infuriating problem and a common sense solution.
Thread on Arnab Datta and James Coleman’s piece in Slow Boring 👇
Very happy to release my new paper with Zack Cooper Stuart Craig Lev Klarnet: 'Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?' (zarekcb.github.io/HospitalMerger…)
In open defiance of Betteridge's Law, our answer is 'yes, absolutely.' (thread below)
🚨 New paper alert! “Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?” with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Stuart Craig, and Lev Klarnet that’s forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insights. TLDR: Yes…there has been way too little enforcement. 🧵
Smart ppl reacting to our medical debt study
'This is, unfortunately, not very surprising' (Patrick McKenzie )
'I'm actually surprised!' (@Noahpinion)
Think this means we're sharpening our collective prior 😊😊😊
NYT: nytimes.com/2024/04/08/sci…
Study: nber.org/papers/w32315
Update:Thank you Neale Mahoney Ray Kluender Francis Wong for the follow up op-ed clarifying data and conclusions in your study re credit reporting, the impact of financial assistance, and that the age of the debt matters. This matters for policy debates. thehill.com/opinion/health…
We've received lots of questions on the implications of our medical debt study for funders of medical debt relief.
New oped w/ Ray Kluender Francis Wong drawing out some lessons
We’re paying off medical debt wrong thehill.com/opinion/health…
My thread walks through some results in the paper, but they naturally raise questions about what it means for policy.
Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and I draw out lessons we've learned and what they mean in an op-ed here: thehill.com/opinion/health…