Research

Under review

Boone, E. C., Celhay, A. P., Gertler, P., and Gracner, T. Encouraging Preventative Care to Manage Chronic Disease at Scale. [NBER working paper 31643]

Gertler, P. and Gracner, T*. "The Sweet Life: the Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Diet" [NBER working paper 30799 ] (Freakonomics, M.D. here, Quartz here, The Guardian here , The New York Times here, Kidding Around, FabResearch ) , revision requested at Journal of Political Economy

Kapinos, K. and Gracner, T."Perinatal Microbiome Exposures and Childhood Weight"

Gracner, T.*, Chaturvedi, R*, Nguyen, P., Tysinger, B., Heun-Johnson, H., Goldman, D., and Lakdawalla, D. "The Burden of Cognitive Impairment"

Work in progress

Gracner, T.*, Boone, C., Gertler, P. "Limiting early-life exposure to sugar can reduce adult body size differences related to genetic obesity risk"

Gertler, P., Gracner, T., Montero, R., Seira, E. "Internalities and the effectiveness of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages" [draft available]

Gracner, T.*, Chaturvedi, R.*, Nguyen, P., Tysinger, B., Goldman, D.,  Narai, K., and Sturm, R. The Long-Term Value of Precision Bariatric Surgery Intervention [draft available]

Sweet Beginnings: Sin Taxes and Newborn's Health.

(joint with Kapinos K., and Marquez-Padilla F.) (analyses in progress)

Conditional transfers, education and health in the next generation: evidence from Mexico. 

(joint with Marquez-Padilla F., and Parker S.) (analyses in progress)

PUBLICATIONS

Gracner, T.*, Boone, C., Gertler, P. "Restricting Added Sugar in the First 1000 Days Protects Against Chronic Disease", forthcoming at Science [Link to paper][AshEcon]

Gertler, P., Gonzalez-Navarro, M., Gracner, T., Rothenberg, A. "Road Maintenance and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways." [NBER WP30454] (VoxEU here ), Journal of Urban Economics, 143, p.103687 [link]

Kranz, A., Mizushima, Y., Geissler, K., Dick, A., Gracner, T. "Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Mandate and Receipt of Fluoride Varnish", Pediatrics, 2024

Gracner, T.*, Kranz, A.*, Li, K., Dick, AW., Geissler, K. "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Pediatric Medical Clinicians' Application of Flouride Varnish", Jama Network Open, 6(11). [link]

Kapinos, KA., DeYoreo, M., Gracner, T., Cantor, J. "Trends in Geographic Proximity to Substance Use Disorder Treatment." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2023 [link]

Chaturvedi, R.*, Gracner, T.*, Tysinger, B., Goldman, D., Narain, K., and Sturm, R. "The Long-term Value of a Bariatric Surgery Intervention for American Adults with Diabetes" Annals of Surgery, 2022 Jul 8th [link] [brief] 

Boone, C., Celhay, P., Gertler, P. , Gracner, T.*, Rodriguez, J. "How Scheduling Systems with Automated Appointment Reminders Improve Health Clinic Efficiency" Journal of Health Economics, 82, 2022  [link] [NBER Working Paper 28166]

Gračner T*., Marquez-Padilla F., Hernandez-Cortes D. "Changes in Weight-Related Outcomes Among Adolescents Following Consumer Price Increases of Taxed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages." JAMA Pediatr. Published online December 13, 2021. [link]

(Editorial Comment here; Freakonomics here, The Hill here ) 

Gračner T.*, Kapinos, K., Gertler, P. "Associations of a National Tax on Non-Essential High Calorie Foods with Changes in Consumer Prices." Food Policy, Volume 106, 2022. [link]

Gračner, T."Bittersweet: How prices of sugar-rich foods contribute to the diet-related disease epidemic in Mexico", Journal of Health Economics, 80, p.102506, 2021. [link]

(awarded Juan Luis Londoño Prize for the best paper presented by a young researcher (LACEA); Best of Annual Research Meeting at the Academy Health) 

Gaduh, A., Gračner, T. and Rothenberg, A.D., 2021. "Life in the slow lane: Unintended consequences of public transit in Jakarta." Journal of Urban Economics, p.103411. [link]

(coverage: GlobalDev.blog, VoxDev.org, The Jakarta Post)

Agarwal, M., Estrada, L.V., Gracner, T., Dick., A.W., Stone, W.P. "Nursing home antibiotic stewardship policy and antibiotics use: 2013-2017." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, July 2021. [link]

Gracner, T.*, Stone, P., Agarwal, M., Sorbero, M., and Dick, W.A. "Advanced cognitive impairment among older nursing home residents." BMC Geriatr 21, 382 (2021).[link] 

Gracner, T.*, Agarwal, M., Murali, P.K., Stone, W.P., Larson, L.E., Furuya, Y., Harrison, J., Dick, W.A. "Association of Infection-Related Hospitalization with Cognitive Impairment Among Nursing Home Residents" JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(4):e217528 [link][media]

Atella, V., Belotti, F., Daejung, K., Goldman, D., Gracner, T., Piano Mortari, A., Tysinger, B. "The future of the elderly population health status: filling a knowledge gap", Health Economics, Mar 26. 2021 [link]

Travers, L.J, Agarwal, M., Estrada, V.L., Dick, W.A., Gracner, T., Wu, B., Stone, W.P."Assessment of COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates Among Nursing Homes with Different Proportions of Black Residents" Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2021 [link]

Harrison, J., Agarwal, M., Stone, W.P., Gracner, T., Sorbero, M., Dick, W.A."Advance Directives, Dementia, Geriatric Palliative Care End of Life Issues, Long Term Care Nursing Home patients at the End of Life." Journal of Palliative Care , 2021

Cohen, C.C., Dick, W.A., Agarwal, M., Gracner, T., Mitchell, S., Stone, W.P. "Trends in Antibiotics Use among Long-term U.S. Nursing Home Residents." Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, pp.1-7. 2020 [link]

Agarwal, M., Gracner, T., Dick, A. and Stone, P.W."Associations Between Antibiotic Stewardship Policies and Antibiotic Use in US Nursing Homes." American Journal of Infection Control, 48(8), p.S2. 2020

Gracner, T.*, Sorbero, M., Stone W.P., Agarwal, M., Dick, W.A."Advanced Illness Among Elderly Nursing Home Residents With Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia." Innovation in Aging, 3(Suppl 1), p.S509., 2019

Mulcahy, A., Gracner, T., Finegold, K."Associations between the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid primary care payment increase and physician participation in Medicaid." JAMA internal medicine, 178(8), pp.1042-1048, 2018 [link][media][media][media]

Strong, A., Gracner T., Chen, P., Kapinos, K."On the value of the umbilical cord blood supply." Value in Health, 21(9), pp.1077-1082, 2018 [link]

Taylor, E.A., Fischer, S.H., Gracner, T., Tejeda, I., Kim, A., Chavez-Herrerias, E. and de la Guardia, F.H. "Developing a Strategic Program for Chilean Health Information Technol- ogy: Environmental Scan and Key Informant Interviews." Rand Health Quarterly, 6(1), 2016

Witoelar, F., Rothenberg, A., Qicaksono T.Y., Gracner, T., Sikoki, B. 2017. "How Jakarta’s Traffic Affects Labor Market Outputs for Women and People with Disabilities." AIPEG.

Mulcahy, A.W., Gracner, T., Reid, R.O., Doyle, M.B., Malsberger, R. 2017. "Measuring Medi- cation Adherence in Multi-Payer Transaction Data." RAND.

Kapinos, K.A., Briscombe, B., Gracner, T., Strong, A., Whaley, C., Hoch, E., Hlavka, J.P., Case, S.R. and Chen, P.G. 2017. "Challenges to the Sustainability of the U.S. Public Cord Blood System." RAND.

Kapinos, K.A., Briscombe, B., Gracner, T., Strong, A., Whaley, C., Hoch, E., Hlavka, J.P., Case, S.R. and Chen, P.G.. 2017. "Public Cord Blood Banks." RAND.

Mulcahy, A.W., Gutierrez, I.A., Gracner, T., Ruder, T., Hart, G.E. and Sorbero, M.E. 2017. "The Impact of Health Reform on Purchased Care Access." RAND.

Mulcahy, A., Gracner, T., Doyle, M., Malsberger, R. 2016. "Tracking the Impacts of the Medicaid Primary Care Payment Increase in Medical Claims." RAND.

Mulcahy, A., Gracner, T., Doyle, M., Malsberger, R. 2016. "Tracking the Effects of the Expira- tion of the Medicaid Primary Care Payment Increase." RAND.

Taylor, E. A., Fischer, S. H., Gracner, T., Tejeda, I., Kim, A., Chavez-Herrerias, E., & de la Guardia, F. H. 2016. "A Roadmap for the Development of Health Information Technology in Chile." RAND.