Amy Finkelstein

Randomized Evaluations

Health Care Hotspotting (with Jeffrey Brenner, Joseph Doyle, Sarah Taumban, and Annetta Zhou)
Intervention start date: 2014 Click here for paper.

The Impact of Bundled Payments on Medicare Spending, Utilization, and Quality in the United States (with Yunan Ji, Neale Mahoney and Jonathan Skinner)
Click here for the paper.
Intervention start date: 2016

Clinical Decision Support for Radiology Imaging (with Sarah Abraham, Joseph Doyle, Laura Feeney and Sarah Reimer)
Click here for the paper.
Intervention start date: 2016

SNAP Take-up Evaluation (with Matthew Notowidigdo)
Click here for the paper.
Intervention start date: 2015

The challenges of universal health insurance in developing countries- Evidence from a large-scale randomized experiment in Indonesia
NBER Working Paper 26204, August 2019 (with Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Benjamin Olken, Arianna Ornaghi, and Sudarno Sumarto).
Intervention Start Date: 2015

Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing of Controlled Substances (with Shantanu Agrawal, Adam Sacarny, and David Yokum)
Click here for the paper.
Intervention start date: 2014

Oregon Health Insurance Experiment (co PIs: Amy Finkelstein and Katherine Baicker)
Click here for J-PAL policy briefcase.
Intervention start date: 2008

Re-Analysis

Re-Analysis of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment (with Aviva Aron-Dine and Liran Einav)

Overviews

A Strategy for Improving U.S. Health Care Delivery - Conducting More Randomized, Controlled Trials April 2020, The New England Journal of Medicine 382(16)

In Praise of Moderation: Suggestions for the Scope and Use of Pre-Analysis Plans for RCTs in Economics National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper Series April 2020

Randomize Evaluations to Improve Health Care Delivery February 2015 with Sarah Taubman, Science 347 (6223):720-722 Article available here Longer version available here