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Empowering The Public Health Service, Louis Graham Aug 2008

Empowering The Public Health Service, Louis Graham

Louis F Graham

Increase the efficacy of the Public Health Service (PHS) by making the head of PHS an appointment with a extended term and establishing criteria for PHS leadership to have formal training in population health research and practice.


The Economic Costs Of Childhood Poverty In The United States, Harry Holzer, Diane Schanzenbach, Jens Ludwig, Greg Duncan Feb 2008

The Economic Costs Of Childhood Poverty In The United States, Harry Holzer, Diane Schanzenbach, Jens Ludwig, Greg Duncan

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

No abstract provided.


Insurer Competitive Strategy And Enrollment In Newly Offered Preferred Provider Organizations (Ppo), Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier, Michael Chernew, Edward Okeke Dec 2007

Insurer Competitive Strategy And Enrollment In Newly Offered Preferred Provider Organizations (Ppo), Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier, Michael Chernew, Edward Okeke

Edward Okeke

While early PPO growth coincided with growth of managed care generally, recent growth has come primarily at the expense of other managed care plans. Little is known about the micro behavior underlying these trends. In 2005, University of Michigan employees were offered PPOs for the first time by vendors who also offered other plans. PPOs helped the offering vendors maintain or grow their total enrollment share. PPOs were most attractive to workers who had previously chosen less managed plans. Because PPOs drew few enrollees from HMOs, there was little evidence of a backlash against managed care in the context of …


“Selling Licenses For A Process Innovation: The Impact Of The Product Market On The Selling Mechanism, Aniruddha Bagchi Dec 2007

“Selling Licenses For A Process Innovation: The Impact Of The Product Market On The Selling Mechanism, Aniruddha Bagchi

Aniruddha Bagchi

This article considers the sale by a research lab of licences for a cost-reducing innovation. The marginal cost of a firm that wins a licence is private information and the acquisition of a licence imposes a negative externality on the other firms. The lab’s optimal revenue is determined from a class of mechanisms in which the lab selects the number of licences and the reserve price before the sale. The role of the downstream product market in the determination of the number of licences is analyzed. Furthermore, it is also shown that the optimal reserve price may be zero.