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Claire Boone

@claireboone.bsky.social
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Assistant professor of health economics at McGill

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Dan Ly @meddly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interesting paper by @claireboone.bsky.social in @jamainternalmed.com. When faced with incentive to "control" hypertension, docs more likely to recheck BP, choose the lower reading, document BP as controlled, and less likely to intensify BP meds. This results in ⬆️ hospitalizations for CV events!
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Claire Boone @claireboone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New diff-in-diff paper in @jamainternalmed.com. We document some unintended consequences of a hypertension control quality metric and financial incentive -- one that's widely used in US healthcare. In the overall population with hypertension there were almost no impacts, but..
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Claire Boone @claireboone.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Highlights from our new paper: limiting sugar in early life protects against obesity in adulthood. Effects are largest among those at high genetic risk of obesity, meaning diet can reduce genetic-based disparities (!!). And we define obesity with a multidimensional measure, going beyond just BMI.
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Chicago Booth Review @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Insurance claims data highlight a critical treatment gap, according to research via McGill University’s @claireboone.bsky.social, Stanford PhD student Carla Colina, and Chicago Booth’s Devin G. Pope. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/pregn... #econsky
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Pregnant Women May Not Be Getting the Depression Care They Need
Insurance claims data highlight a critical treatment gap.
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NBER @nber.org · 07/05/2025
Preventive medical care substantially improves chronic disease management through disease monitoring, medication adherence and mitigating complications, from Claire Boone, Pablo A. Celhay, Paul Gertler, and Tadeja Gracner www.nber.org/papers/w33738
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Claire Boone @claireboone.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New paper with Devin Pope and Carla Colina: in a large US sample, we find that ~half of women discontinue antidepressants during pregnancy without substitution to psychotherapy, suggesting a large gap in women's mental health care during a critical period. ps petition for Devin to join bluesky!
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Antidepressant Use Before, During, and After Pregnancy
This cohort study investigates rates of antidepressant use among women 24 months before and after the birth of a child.
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Claire Boone @claireboone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Late breaking job -- we're hiring at McGill Economics! Please apply if you like social and supportive departments, fun cities, and Canada. Happy to answer any questions 🤩 econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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