Michael Darden's Research

Working Economics Papers

Cities and Smoking

~~Under Review~~

"Rational Self-Medication." with Nicholas Papageorge

~~NBER Working Paper #25371. Under Review~~

Mentions: VoxEU, Cato, Medical Xpress, and Marginal Revolution

"Who Pays in Pay for Performance? Evidence from Hospital Pricing" with Ian McCarthy and Eric Barrette.

~~NBER Working Paper #24304. Under Review~~

Formerly titled "Hospital Pricing and Public Payments"

Measuring the Impact of Calorie Labeling: The Mechanisms Behind Changes in Obesity

~~with Rodrigo Aranda and Donald Rose. Under Review~~

Cost-effectiveness of digital CBT (Sleepio) for insomnia: A Markov simulation model and societal perspectives

~~with Colin A. Espie, Jenna R. Carl, Alasdair L. Henry, Jennifer C. Kanady, and Christopher B. Miller. Under Review~~

The Health Care Costs of Smoking Among the Elderly

~~with Robert Kaestner~~

The Dynamics of the Smoking Wage Penalty

~~with Melinda Pitts and Julie Hotchkiss~~

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Economics Publications

“Smoking, Morbidity, and Mortality: Evidence from a Long Panel” with Donna Gilleskie and Koleman Strumpf.

~~International Economic Review. 2018, 59(3), 1571-1619~~

“Smoking, Expectations, and Health: A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Lifetime Smoking Behavior.”

~~Journal of Political Economy. 2017, 125(5), 1485-1522.~~

“Supply-side Responses to Public Quality Ratings: Evidence from Medicare Advantage” with Ian McCarthy.

~~American Journal of Health Economics. Spring 2017, 3(2), 140–164~~

“Comprehensive Indoor Smoking Bans and Smoking Prevalence: Evidence at the State Level” with Thomas Carton, John Levendis, Sang Lee, and Iben Ricket.

~~American Journal of Health Economics. 2016, 2(4), 535–556.~~

“The Effects of Parental Health Shocks on Adult Offspring Smoking Behavior: Evidence from a Long Panel” with Donna Gilleskie.

~~Health Economics. 2016, 25, 939–954.~~

“The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments” with Ian McCarthy.

~~Journal of Human Resources. 2015, 50(4), 980–1008.~~

“Are Investments in Disease Prevention Complements? The Case of Statins and Health Behaviors” with Robert Kaestner and Darius Lakdawalla.

~~Journal of Health Economics. 2014, 26, 151–163.~~

“Adjusting to Natural Disasters” with V. Kerry Smith, Jared C. Carbone, Jaren C. Pope, and Daniel G. Hallstrom.

~~Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 2006, 33, 37-54.~~

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Selected Interdisciplinary Publications

``Racial and Regional Disparity in Liver Transplant Allocation.'' (2018) with Monlezum D, Friedlander P, Balart L, Parker G, Buell JF.

~~Surgery March; 163(3), 612-616~~

``Liver transplantation in New Orleans: parity in a world of disparity?'' (2017) with Alison Smith, Zaid Al-Qurayshi, Anil Paramesh, Mary Killackey, Emad Kandil, Geoffrey Parker, Luis Balart, Paul Friedlander, and Joseph Buell.

~~HPB. 19(9) 783-798~~

``Disparities and survival outcomes in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma: a national perspective,'' (2017) with D Pointer, A Volk, G Parker, R Marshall, P Friedlander, J Buell.

~~HPB, 19, pp. 68.~~

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