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Nordhaus on the climate bill: NYT features historic bill in context Nobel winner’s issue-defining prescription
August 7th, 2022
NPR: Yale Economist leads new federal initiative to include nature in US economic indicators
August 18th, 2022
The Atlantic: Infrastructure Construction and the Cost of "Citizen Voice"
April 22nd, 2022
Prof. Gillingham: Helping Drivers Understand Advantages of Electric Cars Can Help Accelerate the Shift
February 9th, 2022
Prof. Goldsmith-Pinkham: Changes to Medicare that Help Close Racial Gaps in Access to Healthcare
January 24th, 2022
The Medical Ethics Advisor cites Tobin’s Zack Cooper and Emily Radel on the ethical implications of hospitals suing patients.
February 1, 2022
Prof. Goldsmith-Pinkham: Changes to Medicare that Help Close Racial Gaps in Access to Healthcare
January 24, 2022
Tobin’s Zack Cooper is interviewed by Kate Archer Kent on WPR’s “The Morning Show” on the rise in hospital lawsuits over unpaid medical bills
January 10, 2022
KHN quotes Tobin's Cooper on unaffordable medical costs being a systemic issue that impacts the most vulnerable in our population including surprise bills and medical lawsuits
December 23, 2021
Tobin Researchers campaign to boost vaccinations in communities of color
December 17th, 2021
WSJ: Tobin's Cooper finds that Wisconsin hospitals pursued medical debt collection widely but unevenly; low-income & Black patients disproportionately sued
December 6, 2021
Bloomberg reports on Cooper's research showing Wisconsin hospital collections lawsuits increased by more than a third since 2001 and spotlights the burden on Black residents
December 6, 2021
WSJ: Tobin’s Cooper suggests selecting a narrow-network health plan to lower bills
October 28th, 2021
NextAdvisor in parentship with Time cites Tobin Research on the Economic Impacts of Losing Unemployment Benefits
September 7, 2021
Tobin Center Supports Pricing Nature Podcast
September 7th, 2021. Part of our emerging climate portfolio, the Tobin Center is supporting Pricing Nature, a podcast that tells a story about the economics, politics, and history of carbon pricing, which many argue should play a critical role in any national climate policy. Pricing Nature features conversations with carbon pricing experts from government, academia, and civil society.
NYT quotes Tobin’s Cooper on Inconsistent Pricing at Hospitals
August 22th, 2021. Tobin’s Zack Cooper gives his thoughts on new hospital data showing hospital prices negotiated by private insurers. The data shows examples of major health insurers negotiating unfavorable rates for their customers; some insured patients are paying more than the cash rate.
CDC Features Tobin-supported Research on Childcare Provider Vaccine Uptake
August 13th, 2021
NPR: Tobin's Cooper Hospital Merger Cost to Communities, Biden Actions, and Taking "1% steps" for Change
July 20th, 2021
Washington Post: Tobin’s Professor Cooper on Biden Order to Enforce Hospital Price Transparency
July 12th, 2021
New York Times: "Buoyed by Federal Covid Aid, Big Hospital Chains Buy Up Competitors"
May 21st, 2021. The pandemic barely dented the financial outlook for some major hospital networks, which continued to acquire weaker hospitals and ailing doctors’ practices. Critics worry consolidation leads to higher prices for medical care. Zack Cooper, a health economist at Yale's Tobin Center, has been researching consolidation (horizontal and vertical) in health care and is interviewed for this New York Times article. Professor Cooper has been advising policy-makers on evidence-based steps for reform to address hospital concentration and rising consolidation in the U.S. as part of his 1% Steps for Health Care Reform Project.
Spectrum News: Tobin Webtool Brings Nursing Home Risk Data a Live for Public Health Leaders.
April 15th, 2021
NPR: Vaccines at Dollar General Would Boost Access, Equity Shows Tobin-supported Study
April 8th, 2021
Freakonomics Radio: "Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?"
April 7th, 2021. Kidney failure is such a catastrophic (and expensive) disease that Medicare covers treatment for anyone, regardless of age. Since Medicare reimbursement rates are fairly low, the dialysis industry had to find a way to tweak the system if they wanted to make big profits. They succeeded. This podcast includes interviews with Yale's health care economist, Zack Cooper.
McKnight's: New Tobin Resource Helps Nursing Homes Understand, Avoid Infection Risk.
April 7th, 2021
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September 2020
- New York Times: "How Companies Are Getting Speedy Coronavirus Tests for Employe…
- New York Times: "Fauci Warns Coronavirus Could Disrupt Life Well Into New Year"
- New York Times: "Do Jobless Benefits Deter Workers? Some Employers Say Yes. Stu…
- New York Times: "‘They Call Me a Criminal’: Nursing Home Workers Who May Spread…
July 2020
- Wall Street Journal: "Is $600 a Week in Extra Unemployment Aid Deterring People…
- YaleNews: "Yale Study Finds Expanded Jobless Benefits Did Not Reduce Employment"
- Vox: "Economists Say Congress Should Think Big on the Next Rescue Package"
- CBS News: "It's Been a Record 11 Years Since the Last Increase in U.S. Minimum …
- Politico: "If You Want to Save the Economy, Stop the Pandemic"
- "U.S. Urban Crime Trends During Covid-19"
June 2020
- NYT: "Two Friends in Texas Were Tested for Coronavirus. One Bill Was $199. The …
- NYT: "Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment"
- Bloomberg: "U.S. June Jobless Rate Falls 2 Percentage Points in Yale Survey"
- YaleNews: "Yale Labor Survey Tracks U.S. Labor Markets in Real Time"
- YaleNews: "Study Shows Pandemic’s Impact on Hours Worked in U.S. Small Business…
- ProPublica: "How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills"
- NYT: "Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Mil…
- Panel: COVID-19 Social Science Research Opportunities
May 2020
- WSJ: "Ill-Timed Health-Care Buyouts Bruise KKR and Blackstone"
- Tobin Center’s Wilkinson and former Governor Martin O’Malley to Discuss Covid-…
- Panel: New Datasets for COVID-19 and other Social Science Research
- In Progress: A Tool to Help Policymakers Safely Re-open the Economy
- Podcast: Yale Economist Zack Cooper Tells CBS News Much Is Needed to Revive the…
- Social Science Researchers Engage Students in Social and Policy Questions Rais…
- "We can scale up testing. We’re just waiting on the government to agree."
April 2020
- "How Do You Reopen a Country?": Faculty Director of the Tobin Center, Zack Coop…
- Upcoming Event: COVID-19 Social Science Research Opportunities for Students
- The Economist: Politicians in America and Europe scramble to help small firms
- The Economist: Politicians in America and Europe scramble to help small firms
- "The Second COVID-themed Dean's Virtual Workshop Highlights Community Partners…
- Tobin Center Advises on Rockefeller Foundation Reopening Plan
- Yale School of Medicine Dean's Workshop Featuring Dave Wilkinson
- In conversation: Yale’s Tobin Center addresses economic challenges of the pande…
- COVID-19: Investment and Federal Leadership to Open The Economy and Prevent a S…
- Forbes: "A New Study Suggests You May Want To Rethink That MBA"
- NPR Planet Money: Tobin's Zack Cooper on the Economics of Hospital Beds
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth: "Two Things State and Local Governments…
- Yale's Giuseppe Moscarini on Managing Roiling Labor Markets