Assistant Chief Economist
Abe C. Dunn
Education
Areas of Interest
How Much Are Medical Innovations Worth? A Detailed Analysis Using Cost-Effectiveness Studies (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Lasanthi Fernando , and Eli Liebman
Expanding the Frontier of Economic Statistics Using Big Data: A Case Study of Regional Employment (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eric English , Kyle K. Hood , Lowell Mason , and Brian Quistorff
A Direct Measure of Medical Innovation on Health Care Spending: A Condition-Specific Approach (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Lasanthi Fernando , and Eli Liebman
Consumption Zones (PDF)
Andrea Batch , Benjamin R. Bridgman , Abe C. Dunn , and Mahsa Gholizadeh
The Geography of Consumption and Local Economic Shocks: The Case of the Great Recession (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn and Mahsa Gholizadeh
More than two decades ago a well-known study on heart attack treatments provided evidence suggesting that, when appropriately adjusted for quality, medical care prices were actually declining (Cutler et al. 1998). Our paper revisits this subject by leveraging estimates from more than 8,000 cost-effectiveness studies across a broad range of conditions and treatments. We find large quality-adjusted price declines associated with treatment innovations. To incorporate these quality-adjusted indexes into an aggregate measure of inflation, we combine an unadjusted medical-care price index, quality-adjusted price indexes from treatment innovations, and proxies for the diffusion rate of new technologies. In contrast to official statistics that suggest medical care prices increased by 0.53 percent per year relative to economy-wide inflation from 2000 to 2017, we find that quality-adjusted medical care prices declined by 1.33 percent per year over the same period.
Abe C. Dunn , Anne E. Hall , and Seidu Dauda
Econometrica, Forethcoming
Measuring Consumer Spending Using Card Transaction Data: Lessons from the COVID…
Abe C. Dunn , Kyle K. Hood , Andrea Batch , and Alexander Driessen
Insurance Expansions and Hospital Utilization: Relabeling and Reabling?
Abe C. Dunn and Seidu Dauda
Spending by Condition for the Long-Term Care Population Using Medicaid Claims (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Peter Shieh , Lasanthi Fernando , and Charles Roehrig
The Geography of Consumption and Local Economic Shocks: The Case of the Great Recession (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn and Mahsa Gholizadeh
Administration above Administrators: The Changing Technology of Health Care Man…
Abe C. Dunn , Josh Gottlieb , and Adam Shapiro
Productivity Growth in Treating a Major Chronic Health Condition
John A. Romley , Dana Goldman , Neeraj Sood , and Abe C. Dunn
Measuring the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Consumer Spending Using Card Transaction Data (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Kyle K. Hood , and Alexander Driessen
US health care spending by payer and health condition, 1996-2016
Joseph Dieleman , Jackie Cao , Abby Chapin , and Abe C. Dunn
Measuring the Gross Domestic Product (GDP): The Ultimate Data Science Project
Brian C. Moyer and Abe C. Dunn
Quantifying Productivity Growth in the Delivery of Important Episodes of Care …
John A. Romley , Dana Goldman , Neeraj Sood , and Abe C. Dunn
Are Medical Care Prices Still Declining? A Systematic Examination of Quality-Adjusted Price Index Alternatives for Medical Care (PDF)
Seidu Dauda , Abe C. Dunn , and Anne E. Hall
The Complexity of Billing and Paying for Physician Care
Abe C. Dunn , Adam Shapiro , and Josh Gottlieb
High Spending Growth Rates for Key Diseases In 2000-14 were Driven by Technolog…
Abe C. Dunn , Bryn Whitmire , Andrea Batch , Lasanthi Fernando , and Lindsey Rittmueller
"The Complexity of Billing and Paying for Physician Care (PDF)
Josh Gottlieb , Adam Shapiro , and Abe C. Dunn
Physician Competition and the Provision of Care: Evidence from Heart Attacks
Abe C. Dunn and Adam Shapiro
Adjusting Health Expenditures for Inflation: A Review of Measures for Health Services Research in the United States (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Scott D. Grosse , and Samuel H. Zuvekas
Health Care Spending Slowdown From 2000 To 2010 Was Driven By Lower Growth In C…
Abe C. Dunn , Lindsey Rittmueller , and Bryn Whitmire
Introducing the New BEA Health Care Satellite Account
Abe C. Dunn , Lindsey Rittmueller , and Bryn Whitmire
Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Instrumental Variable Estimates Using Health Insurer Claims Data (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn
Defining Disease Episodes and the Effects on the Components of Expenditure Growth (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eli Liebman , Lindsey Rittmueller , and Adam Shapiro
Developing a Framework for Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth: Exploring Issues of Representativeness (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eli Liebman , and Adam Shapiro
Implications of Utilization Shifts on Medical-Care Price Measurement (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eli Liebman , and Adam Shapiro
Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eli Liebman , and Adam Shapiro
Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn and Adam Shapiro
Geographic Variation in Commercial Medical-Care Expenditures: A Framework for Decomposing Price and Utilization (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Adam Shapiro , and Eli Liebman
Drug Innovations and Welfare Measures Computed from Market Demand: The Case of Anti-Cholesterol Drugs (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn
Medical Care Price Indexes for Patients with Employer-Provided Insurance: Nationally-Representative Estimates from MarketScan Data (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn , Eli Liebman , and Sarah J. Pack
The Value of Coverage in the Medicare Advantage Insurance Market (PDF)
Abe C. Dunn