Health
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David Chan receives NIHCM Award for research on veterans care
Senior Fellow David Chan receives the 2024 National Institute for Health Care Management Research Award.
April 17, 2024
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As the world ages and longevity increases, so too does caregiver burnout for the sandwich generation. SIEPR’s executive director Jialu Streeter offers tips for caregivers.
April 08, 2024
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The New York Times reports on a study from SIEPR's Neale Mahoney, which finds that medical debt relief efforts aren't going as expected.
April 08, 2024
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Study finds medical debt relief doesn’t always work
A first-of-its-kind study from Stanford economist Neale Mahoney finds that efforts to help low-income Americans by buying up their medical debt aren’t going as planned.
April 08, 2024
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Economic Report of the President draws on work of scholars
President Biden’s assessment of the nation’s economic health and groundwork for what’s next relies heavily on academic research, including the work of several scholars.
April 03, 2024
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Senior Fellow Gopi Shah Goda and Undergraduate Research Assistant Emma Casey explore the future of health insurance and health care.
March 18, 2024
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Big ideas, small fixes: Improving US health care
At the 2024 Economic Summit, health care experts discussed solutions to a concern that 75 percent Americans share: How to make medical care affordable and accessible.
March 07, 2024
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Neale Mahoney named director of SIEPR
Mahoney aims to continue the institute’s impact by connecting its scholars and their research with state, national and global policymakers.
March 01, 2024
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SIEPR's Goda joins Newsom's economic advisory council
Gopi Shah Goda is the newest member of the administration's Council of Economic Advisors
February 15, 2024
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7 economic trends to watch in 2024
Policymakers have their work cut out for them this election year.
January 05, 2024
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A new op-ed by SIEPR’s Mark Duggan published by The Hill connects the growth in veterans’ disability to declines in veterans’ employment and our crisis in military recruiting.
November 11, 2023
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A mix of revenue hikes and benefit trims will be needed, SIEPR’s Mark Duggan concluded in a paper published by Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
November 10, 2023
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Rossin-Slater wins AEA prize for women economists
The prize recognizes Rossin-Slater’s research examining the impacts of public policies and other factors on families and children.
October 30, 2023
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“Social Security does reduce the racial gap in retirement wealth in its current form, but it could go farther by increasing the minimum benefit,” SIEPR's Gopi Shah Goda tells AARP.
October 18, 2023
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Understanding how long you're likely to live once you hit retirement age is key to retirement planning, SIEPR's Annamaria Lusardi tells CBS News.
September 27, 2023
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Victor Fuchs, Senior Fellow Emeritus, was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs.
September 20, 2023
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Victor Fuchs, a pioneering economist who sought to explain why Americans don’t live longer, healthier lives, died on September 16.
September 20, 2023
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Victor Fuchs, pioneer of health care economics, has died
Fuchs’ influence and tireless devotion to the field of health care economics and the Stanford community spanned decades.
September 18, 2023
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As Social Security celebrates its 88th birthday, Director Mark Duggan unpacks the fate of the nation's most important government program in a new op-ed for The Hill.
August 17, 2023
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“Our analysis shows that certainly physicians respond to earnings when choosing specialties,” SIEPR’s Maria Polyakova told the Washington Post. “There’s nothing wrong with that."
August 04, 2023