Senior Research Economist
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Education
Do Price Deflators for High-Tech Goods Overstate Quality Change? (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Daniel Ripperger-Suhler
An Application of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to the Price Deflation Problem (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Jan de Haan
Outlet Substitution Bias Estimates for Ride Sharing and Taxi Rides in New York City (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs
Ana M. Aizcorbe , Colin Baker , and David M. Cutler
Getting Smart About Phones: New Price Indexes and the Allocation of Spending Be…
Ana M. Aizcorbe , David M. Byrne , and Daniel E. Sichel
Price Indexes for US Medical Care Spending, 1980–2006
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Tina Highfill
Attribution of Health Care Costs to Diseases: Does the Method Matter?
Allison B. Rosen , Ana M. Aizcorbe , Tina Highfill , Michael E. Chernew , Eli Liebman , Kaushik Ghosh , and David M. Cutler
How Government Statistics Adjust for Potential Biases from Quality Change and N…
Erica L. Groshen , Brian C. Moyer , Ana M. Aizcorbe , Ralph Bradley , and David M. Friedman
Medical Care Expenditure Indexes for the US, 1980-2006 (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Tina Highfill
A Practical Guide to Price Indexes and Hedonic Techniques
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Measuring productivity for the US health sector (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe , Gabriel W. Medeiros , and Erich H. Strassner
Household Consumption Expenditures for Medical Care: An Alternate Presentation
Ana M. Aizcorbe , Eli Liebman , David M. Cutler , and Allison B. Rosen
Comparing Commercial Systems for Characterizing Episodes of Care (PDF)
Allison B. Rosen , Eli Liebman , Ana M. Aizcorbe , and David M. Cutler
Alternative Price Indexes for Medical Care: Evidence from the MEPS Survey (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Heterogeneous Car Buyers: A Stylized Fact
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Ana M. Aizcorbe , and Jeremy J. Nalewaik
Implications of Consumer Heterogeneity on Price Measures for Technology Goods (PDF)
Adam Shapiro and Ana M. Aizcorbe
Changing Mix of Medical Care Services: Stylized Facts and Implications for Price Indexes (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak
Measuring Health Care Costs of Individuals with Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the U.S.: A Comparison of Survey and Claims Data (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe , Eli Liebman , Sarah J. Pack , David M. Cutler , Michael E. Chernew , and Allison B. Rosen
Price Indexes for Drugs: A Review of the Issues (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak
In this paper, we explore the importance of shifts in treatments for explaining increases in the cost of health care services. Using a large database of health insurance claims for sample patients, we find that there have been shifts in treatment intensity that have an important effect on costs and that, on average, those treatment shifts served to lower the cost of treating disease. These costs savings appear to be numerically important and pervasive. Our results lend support to earlier work that found these effects for a set of important conditions: heart attacks, cataract, and depression.
Appendix (XLS)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Nicole Nestoriak
Appendix C: Adapting BEA's National and Industry Accounts for a Health Care Satellite Account (PDF)
Brent R. Moulton , Brian C. Moyer , and Ana M. Aizcorbe
Intermittent Purchases and Welfare-Based Price Deflators for Durable Goods (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Adam Copeland
Moore's Law, Competition and Intel's Productivity in the Mid-1990s (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Why Are Semiconductor Price Indexes Falling So Fast?: Industry Estimates and Implications for Productivity Measurement (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe
Differences in Hedonic and Matched-Model Price Indexes: Do the Weights Matter? (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Yvon H. Pho
Moore's Law and the Semiconductor Industry: A Vintage Model (PDF)
Ana M. Aizcorbe and Samuel Kortum