Negative Control Falsification Tests for Instrumental Variable Designs [New April 2025 draft]
with Oren Danieli, Daniel Nevo, Itai Walk, Bar Weinstein
Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review
Strategic Effort and Organizational Performance: Evidence from a Hospital Reform
with Omer Dagan, Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot, and Ity Shurtz
slides Revise & Resubmit, Management Science
Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Nicholas Scott-Hearn, and Ran Balicer [draft coming soon]
Decision-Making in Preventive Medicine: Heterogeneity in Treatment-Effects, Risk Prediction, and Patient Adherence,
with Ity Shurtz, Yoav Goldstein, and Ori Shoham
AI-Assisted Radiology: Augmenting Scarce Expertise to Transform Healthcare Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa
with Laura Schechter, Gisella Kagy, and Monica Lambon-Quayefio
Insuring Health
with Pietro Tebaldi
AI and Organizational Learning
with Amir Goldberg, Douglas Guilbeault, and Lenard Strahringer
Impacts of Home-Care Subsidies: Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment,
Chicago BFI Working Paper No. 2023-139
with Avner Strulov-Shlain and Yuval Ofek-Shani
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 248, August 2025, Article No. 105438
Challenging Encounters and Within-Physician Practice Variability
with Yoav Goldstein and Ity Shurtz
Review of Economics and Statistics, 107 (4), July 2025, 889–897.
[full text] [NotebookML AI-generated podcast]
Digitally Enabled Asynchronous Remote Medical Management of Anxiety and Depression: a Cohort Study
with Amichai Perlman, Yishai Pickman, Michael Dreyfuss, Itai Manes, Peter Bak, Daniel Souroujon, Edo Paz, and Jon Ebbert
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 31 (6), July 2025, 882–890
Comparison of Initial Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Final Physician Recommendations in AI-Assisted Virtual Urgent Care Visits
with Zehavi Kugler, Lior Hayat, Tamar Brufman, Ran Ilan Ber, Keren Leibovich, Tom Beer, Ilan Frank, Ran Shaul, Caroline Goldzweig, Joshua Pevnick
Annals of Internal Medicine, 178 (4), April 2025, 490–497 [full text] [Featured in Annals editorial; ACP plennary]
The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Ran Balicer
Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2024, 22 (2), 712–750. [full text]
Coverage: The CEA Economic Report of the President, The Economist, VoxEU, SIEPR blog, World Economic Forum
Diagnostic Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Primary Care
with Lee Herzog, Yishai Pickman, Yael Steuerman, Ran Ilan Ber, Zehavi Kugler, Ran Shaul, and Jon Ebbert
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, 1 (4), December 2023, 480–489
Coverage: Forbes
Adoption and Utilization of Device-Assisted Telemedicine
with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, Yehezkel Waisman, Motti Haimi, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Health Economics, 90, July 2023, Article No. 102780 [full text]
code Coverage: The Jerusalem Post
Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending?
with Janet Currie and Anastasia Karpova
Journal of Health Economics, 89, May 2023, Article No. 102753
The NIHCM Foundation 2024 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: NBER Bulletin on Health, Brookings Institute Hutchins Roundup, Tradeoffs
Why is End-of-Life Spending So High? Evidence from Cancer Patients
with Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Tzvi Shir, Salomon Stemmer, and Ran Balicer
Review of Economics and Statistics, 105 (3), May 2023, 511–527 [ungated full text]
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Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments [full text]
with Lelia Agha
AEJ: Economic Policy (lead article), 14 (2), May 2022
The NIHCM Foundation 2023 Health Care Research Award Finalist
Coverage: VoxEU
Horizon Effects and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets
with Olivier Darmouni
Canadian Journal of Economics, 55 (2), May 2022, 800–827
Recipient of the Robert Mundell Prize by the Canadian Economics Association
Sex Differences in the Pattern of Patient Referrals to Male and Female Surgeons
with Fahima Dossa, Rinku Sutradhar, Andrea N. Simpson, Nancy N. Baxter
JAMA Surgery, 157 (2), October 2021, 95–103
Coverage: USNews
Characteristics of Private Equity–Owned Hospitals in 2018
with Joseph Bruch and Zirui Song
Annals of Internal Medicine, 174 (2), February 2021, 277–279
Cited by MEDPAC report to the U.S. Congress.
Supply-Side Variation in the Use of Emergency Departments
with Liran Einav, Avichai Chasid, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Health Economics, 78, July 2021, Article No. 102453
Rising Opioid Prescription Fulfillment Among Non-Cancer and Non-Elderly Patients—Israel’s Alarming Example
with Oren Miron, Tzvi Shir, Ran Balicer, Liran Einav, and Becca Feldman
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 46, May 2021, 455–456
Can Targeting High-Risk Patients Reduce Readmission Rates? Evidence from Israel
with Efrat Shadmi, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Ran Balicer
Journal of Applied Economics, 23 (1), November 2020, 729–745
Gender Homophily in Referral Networks: Consequences for the Medicare Physician Earnings Gap [full text]
AEJ: Applied Economics, 12 (2), April 2020, 169–197
Coverage: AEA Journals Chart of the Week
Prediction Accuracy with Electronic Medical Records versus Administrative Claims Data,
with Ran Balicer, Tzvi Shir, Natalie Flaks-Manov, Liran Einav, and Efrat Shadmi
Medical Care, 57 (7), July 2019, 551–559