Dunn, Abe C.

Education

• B.A., Economics and Mathematics, University of Oregon, 2000
• Ph.D., Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2006

Current Areas of Interest

• Health
• Applied Econometrics
• Industrial Organization

Working Papers

• "Are Medical Care Prices Still Declining? A Systematic Examination of Quality-Adjusted Price Index Alternatives for Medical Care"
  • with Seidu Dauda and Anne Hall. 2017
• "Hospital Responses to the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Expansions"
  • with Matt Knepper. 2017

Selected Publications

• "The Complexity of Billing and Paying for Physician Care"
  • with Josh Gottlieb and Adam Hale Shapiro
  • Health Affairs, 37(4), April 2018
• "Physician Competition and the Provision of Care: Evidence from Heart Attacks"
  • with Adam Shapiro
  • American Journal of Health Economics. forthcoming
• "Does Medicare Part D Save Lives?"
  • with Adam Shapiro. 2015
  • American Journal of Health Economics. forthcoming
• "Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth"
  • with Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro
  • Forthcoming in Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs, NBER Volume, ed. by Aizcorbe, Baker, Berndt, Cutler. University of Chicago
• "Adjusting Health Expenditures for Inflation: A Review of Measures for Health Services Research in the United States"
  • with Scott Grosse and Samuel Zuvekas
  • Health Services Research, November 2016
• "Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Instrumental Variable Estimates Using Health Insurer Claims Data"
  • Journal of Health Economics, Vol 48 pages 74-88. July 2016
• "Guidelines for Measuring Disease Episodes: An Analysis of the Effects on the Components of Expenditure Growth"
  • with Eli Liebman, Lindsey Rittmueller, and Adam Shapiro
  • Health Services Research, May 2016
• "Health Care Spending Slowdown From 2000 To 2010 Was Driven By Lower Growth In Cost Per Case, According To A New Data Source"
  • with Lindsey Rittmueller and Bryn Whitmire
  • Health Affairs, Vol 35(1) pgs 132-140, January 2016
• "Implications of Utilization Shifts on Medical-Care Price Measurement"
  • with Adam Shapiro and Eli Liebman
  • Health Economics. Vol. 24(5) Pages 539-537. May 2015
• "Introducing the New BEA Health Care Satellite Account"
  • with Lindsey Rittmueller and Bryn Whitmire
  • Survey of Current Business, January 2015
• "Physician Payments Under Health Care Reform"
  • with Adam Shapiro
  • Journal of Health Economics Vol 39  Pages 89-105. January 2015
• "Developing a Framework for Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth: Exploring Issues of Representativeness"
  • with Eli Liebman and Adam Shapiro
  • Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress, NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth. Dale Jorgenson, Steven Landefeld, and Paul Schreyer, eds.. pages 545-574. 2014
• "Do Physicians Possess Market Power?"
  • with Adam Shapiro
  • Journal of Law and Economics  Vol 57. February 2014
• "Geographic Variation in Commercial Medical-Care Expenditures: A Framework for Decomposing Price and Utilization "
  • with Adam Shapiro and Eli Liebman
  • Journal of Health Economics. Vol 32(6) pgs 1153- 1165. 2013
    • Technical Appendix
• "Medical Care Price Indexes for Patients with Employer-Provided Insurance: Nationally-Representative Estimates from MarketScan Data"
  • with Eli Liebman, Sarah Pack and Adam Shapiro
  • Health Services Research. October 2012.
• "Drug Innovations and Welfare Measures Computed from Market Demand: The Case of Anti-cholesterol Drugs"
  • American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 4(3) pgs 167-89. 2012
• "The Value of Coverage in the Medicare Advantage Insurance Market"
  • Journal of Health Economics. 29(6) pgs 839-855. 2010
• "Do Low-Quality Products Affect High-quality Entry? Multiproduct Firms and Nonstop Entry in Airline Markets"
  • International Journal of Industrial Organization. 26(5), pgs 1074-1089. 2008

Older Working Papers

• "Physician Market Power and Medical-Care Expenditures"
  • with Adam Shapiro. 2011
• "The Effect of Health Insurance Competition when Private Insurers Compete with a Public Option"
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Paper, 2011