Atul Gupta

Little is known about the effect of hospital advertising despite high spending. Medicare data to leveraged to show that advertising expands net inpatient volume and government spending, from Abby E. Alpert, @gupta_atulk, Michael R. Richards, Sarah D. Schutz, and Christopher M. Whaley nber.org/papers/w34657

Great to see this is finally out in print!

@LaurawherryR Thanks, @LaurawherryR!!

@gupta_atulk Congrats all!!

Excited that this paper with @asacarny and @ambarlaforgia is forthcoming in AEJ Applied! Thanks to my coauthors for a fun journey learning so much about hospital gaming (fraud?) and how they use windfall $ We leverage one of the largest Medicare scandals ($3 bn!) to show:

@ysingh_phd @asacarny @ambarlaforgia Thanks!!

@gupta_atulk @asacarny @ambarlaforgia Congratulations! Look forward to reading!

@ashdgandhi @ambarlaforgia @asacarny Thanks, @ashdgandhi!!

Awesome paper by @ambarlaforgia, @gupta_atulk, and @asacarny on what healthcare providers did with funds obtained through widespread Medicare fraud.

@AEAjournals Thanks to AEJ Applied for a great process on this paper. Specially, the editor, Marika Cabral. Can't wait to see this in print!

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare" by Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

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Today, in things that everybody knows but still bear repeating: *the effect of repealing rent control laws on the supply of apartments in Buenos Aires* (from "The Impact of the Chainsaw-Liberation on the Rental Housing Market in Buenos Aires", Elfert and Thomsen, IZA DP 18107)

Countries are like insurance pools. Young pay for the old. If there’s adequate fertility, the pool is stable. If fertility falls too much in a country, either insurance levels must fall or there will be will adverse selection & youth will flee the country. This will hasten the collapse of insurance, a death spiral.

100% agree that essays should be eliminated from admissions applications

Excellent jargon-free explainer on private equity (PE) to help understand this complex new ownership arrangement and concern for healthcare policymakers

10 days to go! Deadline is September 1, 2025. Decisions by September 15.

@nberpubs Key figure from the paper:

This figure summarizes so many things that went wrong in the US between 1990 and 2024

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Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. x.com/lydiadepillis/…