Coady Wing

Do GLP-1 medications pay for themselves by reducing other health care spending?

New NBER WP (claims data + stacked DID): GLP-1 initiation does not reduce non-GLP health spending. Non-GLP spending is higher at 1 year and 5 years. @KosaliSimon @sacksdaniel @STingCai

New NBER working paper: Medicaid Coverage for Obesity Medications"

Coverage for obesity GLP-1s is discretionary. 9 quarters out, coverage increases spending by $752 per 100 enrollee-months. @KosaliSimon @cawley_john @berto_econ @thuynguyen_dieu @STingCai @TarikYuceMD

Health economics pre-doc opening at O'Neill School at Indiana University.

Come work with @KosaliSimon, @seth_freedman, @DrSumedhaGupta, @berto_econ, @AparnaSoni7, @coady_wing, and more!

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Stacked DID offers a simple way to combine information from multiple sub-experiments in a staggered adoption design. Our WP is mostly good news, hopefully with some practical ideas for designing your study. @seth_freedman @ajhollingsworth
nber.org/papers/w32054

What an interesting couple of days at the Econometrics Conference in Honor of Joon Y. Park. Thanks to the IU econ department for hosting.

Here are some @IUONeill PhD students hanging out with @jmwooldridge.