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(Forthcoming Article) - Cesarean section rates vary widely across U.S. counties, but whether this variation reflects patients’ medical risk, beliefs, and preferences or obstetric care environments, including clinicians’ practice styles and delivery facilities, remains unclear. Using 1989–2019 U.S. birth records, we study closures of counties’ last operating obstetric units, which redirect mothers to counties with different baseline C-section rates. In an instrumental variables framework, we find that a one-percentage-point increase in the delivery county’s C-section rate raises a mother’s C-section probability by approximately one percentage point, highlighting the central role of where mothers receive obstetric care in determining C-section use.

Through sheer determination, Neena Nizar has become the first patient in a clinical trial testing a treatment for her disease — one so rare it affects just 30 people worldwide.

(Forthcoming Article) - The vast majority of Americans become eligible for Medicare at age 65. This results in 7 percent of the near elderly transitioning from uninsurance to insurance and 60 percent switching from some source of insurance to Medicare. We develop an extension of two-sample IV to estimate the effect of uninsurance on access to care while accounting for the effects of the other transitions. We find that not having insurance results in much lower probabilities of having a medical provider or receiving inpatient care. The foregone hospitalizations are for life-threatening emergent conditions and elective surgeries that increase quality of life.

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