Ethan M.J. Lieber

I am most interested in health economics, though I like many things related to the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. My published papers, working papers, and in-progress projects are below.

Published Papers

"Prescription for Disaster: The SSDI Rate, Pain, and Prescribing Patterns" with William N. Evans , accepted at Journal of Human Resources. [NBER version]

"The Demand for Skills Training Among Medicaid Home-Based Caregivers" with Chris Cronin, Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 95, article number 102877 [.bib file]

“The Drug Crisis and the Living Arrangements of Children” with Kasey Buckles and William N. Evans, Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 87, article number 102723. [.bib file] [NBER version]

“Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts” with Abby Alpert, William N. Evans, and David Powell, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022, 137(2): 1137-1147. [.bib file] [NBER version]

“Drug Firms’ Payments and Physicians’ Prescribing Behavior in Medicare Part D” with Colleen Carey and Sarah Miller, Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, article number 104402. [.bib file] [NBER version]

“Regulating Markups in U.S. Health Insurance” with Steve Cicala and Victoria Marone, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(4): 71-104. [.bib file] [NBER version]

-- previously circulated as "Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care: Minimum Medical Loss Ratios"

“Targeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care” with Lee Lockwood, American Economic Review, 2019, 109(4): 1461-1485. [.bib file] [NBER version]

“How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic” with William N. Evans and Patrick Power, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101(1): 1-15. [.bib file] [NBER version]

“Peer Effects in Financial Decision-Making” with Bill Skimmyhorn, Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 163: 37-59. [.bib file] 

“Does Insurance Coverage Fall when Nonprofit Insurers Become For-Profits?” Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57: 75-88. [.bib file]

“Does it Pay to Know Prices in Health Care?” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9(1): 154-179. [.bib file]

“Medical Malpractice Reform, the Supply of Physicians, and Adverse Selection” Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57(2): 501-527. [.bib file]

“Online vs. Offline Competition” with Chad Syverson in M. Peitz and J. Waldfogel (eds.), prepared for Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford University Press, 2012 [.bib file]

Working Papers/In-Progress

"Dispensing Education: PharmD, Supply Side Responses in Higher Education, and Labor Markets" with Jeff Denning

"Does More Information Improve Targeting? Evidence from Opioid Prescribing" with William N. Evans

"Financial Incentives for Therapy Completion: a Randomized Controlled Trial with US Veterans" with Christopher Cronin and Meghan Skira