Parker Rogers

Medicare price cuts reduced innovation, increased outsourcing, and worsened product quality, underscoring the need to balance short-term cost containment with long-term impacts, from @YunanJi and @Parker_rog nber.org/papers/w33083

🚨 What happens when the gov't cuts prices on medical technologies? New research (w/ @YunanJi) finds a 61% price cut led to: 75% drop in innovation (may fully offset savings) 49% fewer new firms 28% more production moved overseas 3x repair/replacement rate 🧵(1/n)

This fall I was thrilled that my paper with @parker_rog on the evolution of prosthetic device patenting during the U.S. Civil War and World War I was accepted by the Review of Economics and Statistics: econweb.ucsd.edu/~j1clemens/pdf… (1/N)

Today was a special day in the academic year as Parker Rogers defended his dissertation here at @UCSDEcon. Congratulations @parker_rog on generating an excellent set of papers and an exciting agenda for future work!