Author Page for Richard G. Frank

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Medical School, (Deceased), Harvard Medical School; Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and The Brookings Institute

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Price Indexes for Medical Care Goods and Services: An Overview of Measurement Issues

Posted: 26 Jul 2000

Ernst R. Berndt, David M. Cutler, Richard G. Frank, Zvi Griliches, Joseph P. Newhouse and Jack E. Triplett

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Medical School, (Deceased), Harvard Medical School; Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and The Brookings Institute

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The Price to Consumers of Generic Pharmaceuticals: Beyond the Headlines

NBER Working Paper No. w26120

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 15 May 2023

Richard G. Frank, Andrew Hicks and Ernst R. Berndt

Harvard Medical School, University of Hull - School of Law and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Pricing, Patent Loss and the Market for Pharmaceuticals

NBER Working Paper No. w3803

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022

Richard G. Frank and David S. Salkever

Harvard Medical School and UMBC, Department of Public Policy

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Citation 4

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Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance

NBER Working Paper No. w13817

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022

Richard G. Frank and Karine Lamiraud

Harvard Medical School and ESSEC Business School

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Citation 3

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Mental Health Treatment and Criminal Justice Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w15858

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 May 2010 Last Revised: 12 May 2023

Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

Harvard Medical School and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy

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Citation 1

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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

NBER Working Paper No. w7816

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022

Ernst R. Berndt, Anupa Bir, Susan H. Busch, Richard G. Frank and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard Medical School, Yale University - Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public

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The Medical Treatment of Depression, 1991-1996: Productive Inefficiency, Expected Outcome Variations, and Price Indexes

Posted: 11 Aug 2001

Ernst R. Berndt, Anupa Bir, Susan H. Busch, Richard G. Frank and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard Medical School, Yale University - Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public

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The Regulation of Prescription Drug Competition and Market Responses: Patterns in Prices and Sales Following Loss of Exclusivity

NBER Working Paper No. w19487

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2023

Murray Aitken, Ernst R. Berndt, Barry Bosworth, Iain M. Cockburn, Richard G. Frank, Michael Kleinrock and Bradley Shapiro

IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Brookings Institution - Economic Studies Program, Boston University Questrom School of Business, Harvard Medical School, IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

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The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes

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The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w5989

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 15 May 2022

Susan L. Ettner, Richard G. Frank and Ronald C. Kessler

Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School

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Citation 15

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The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes

INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW, Oct. 1997

Posted: 03 Sep 1997

Susan L. Ettner, Richard G. Frank and Ronald C. Kessler

Harvard University - Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School

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Market Forces and the Public Good: Competition Among Hospitals and Provision of Indigent Care

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Market Forces and the Public Good: Competition Among Hospitals and Provision of Indigent Care

NBER Working Paper No. w3136

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2022

Richard G. Frank, David S. Salkever and Jean Mitchell

Harvard Medical School, UMBC, Department of Public Policy and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Market Forces and the Public Good: Competition Among Hospitals and Provision of Indigent Care

NBER Working Paper No. w3136

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2010

Richard G. Frank, David S. Salkever and Jean Mitchell

Harvard Medical School, UMBC, Department of Public Policy and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Citation 5

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How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts

NBER Working Paper No. w7747

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2022

David M. Cutler, Arnold M. Epstein, Richard G. Frank, Raymond S. Hartman, Charles King, Joseph P. Newhouse, Meredith B. Rosenthal and Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor

Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Greylock McKinnon Associates, Greylock McKinnon Associates, Harvard Medical School; Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and University of Washington - Evans School

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Citation 1

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Measuring Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care

NBER Working Paper No. w6825

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jan 1999 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022

Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire

Harvard Medical School, Tel Aviv University - Faculty of Management and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Citation 10

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The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on Child Human Capital Development

NBER Working Paper No. w15314

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 07 May 2023

Richard G. Frank and Ellen Meara

Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School

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Price Indexes for Acute Phase Treatment of Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w6799

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Dec 1998 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022

Ernst R. Berndt, Susan H. Busch and Richard G. Frank

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Yale University - Department of Health Policy and Management and Harvard Medical School

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Economic Issues in Vaccine Purchase Arrangements

NBER Working Paper No. w5248

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022

David S. Salkever and Richard G. Frank

UMBC, Department of Public Policy and Harvard Medical School

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Custom Made Versus Ready to Wear Treatments; Behavioral Propensities in Physician's Choices

NBER Working Paper No. w13445

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2022

Richard G. Frank and Richard J. Zeckhauser

Harvard Medical School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Citation 7

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Price Indexes for the Treatment of Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w6417

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2022

Richard G. Frank, Ernst R. Berndt and Susan H. Busch

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Yale University - Department of Health Policy and Management

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Citation 2

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Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s

NBER Working Paper No. w11557

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022

Ernst R. Berndt, Alisa Busch, Richard G. Frank and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public

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Citation 1

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Quality-Constant Price Indexes for the Ongoing Treatment of Schizophrenia: An Exploratory Study

NBER Working Paper No. w10022

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Oct 2003 Last Revised: 22 May 2022

Richard G. Frank, Ernst R. Berndt, Alisa Busch and Anthony F. Lehman

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, McLean Hospital and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) - Department of Psychiatry

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Citation 1

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Cost-Offsets of New Medications for Treatment of Schizophrenia

NBER Working Paper No. w12643

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2022

Richard G. Frank, Thomas G. McGuire and Sharon-Lise T. Normand

Harvard Medical School, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public

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Early Retirement and Public Disability Insurance Applications: Exploring the Impact of Depression

NBER Working Paper No. w12237

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022

Rena M. Conti, Ernst R. Berndt and Richard G. Frank

Harvard Medical School - Department of Health Care, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Harvard Medical School

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Altruism, Rivalry and Crowding-Out in the Nonprofit Firm's Supply of Charity Services: the Case of Hospitals

NBER Working Paper No. w2753

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Mar 2004 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2014

Richard G. Frank and David S. Salkever

Harvard Medical School and UMBC, Department of Public Policy

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Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

NBER Working Paper No. w12480

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 30 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022

Ellen Meara and Richard G. Frank

Harvard Medical School and Harvard Medical School

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Updated Estimates of the Impact of Prenatal Care on Birthweight Outcomes by Race

NBER Working Paper No. w3624

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 29 May 2022

Richard G. Frank, Donna M. Strobino, David S. Salkever and Catherine A. Jackson

Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University - School of Hygiene and Public Health, UMBC, Department of Public Policy and University of Maryland

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Citation 4

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Impact of a Managed Behavioral Health Care Carve-Out: A Case Study of One HMO

NBER Working Paper No. w6242

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2022

Anne E. Brisson, Richard G. Frank, Elizabeth S. Notman and Julie A. Gazmararian

Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School and Prudential Securities

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Alternate Insurance Arrangements and the Treatment of Depression: What are the Facts?

NBER Working Paper No. w5813

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 22 May 2022

Ernst R. Berndt, Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard Medical School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Citation 5

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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance

NBER Working Paper No. w26118

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 14 May 2023

Faical Akaichi, Joan Costa-Font and Richard G. Frank

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), London School of Economics and Harvard Medical School

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Citation 4

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Organizational Failure and Government Transfers: Evidence from an Experiment in the Financing of Mental Health Care

NBER Working Paper No. w3923

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022

Richard G. Frank and Martin Gaynor

Harvard Medical School and Carnegie Mellon University

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The Impact of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Psychiatric Patients Treated in Scatterbeds

NBER Working Paper No. w2030

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2022

Richard G. Frank, Judith R. Lave, Carl A. Taube, Agnes Rupp and Howard H. Goldman

Harvard Medical School, Graduate School of Public Health, Independent, Government of the United States of America - Division of Services and Intervention Research and University of Maryland School of Medicine

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Incentives, Optimality, and Publicly Provided Goods: The Case of Mental Health Services

NBER Working Paper No. w3700

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2022

Richard G. Frank and Martin Gaynor

Harvard Medical School and Carnegie Mellon University

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Citation 1

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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12501

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2022

Faical Akaichi, Joan Costa-Font and Richard G. Frank

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), London School of Economics and Harvard Medical School

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Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Under Managed Care

NBER Working Paper No. w6838

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2022

Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire

Harvard Medical School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Citation 1

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Biosimilar Competition: Early Learning

NBER Working Paper No. w28460

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2023

Richard G. Frank, Mahnum Shahzad, William Feldman and Aaron Kesselheim

Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Harvard University - Harvard Medical School and Harvard University - Harvard Medical School

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Dominated Choices and Medicare Advantage Enrollment

NBER Working Paper No. w20181

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2023

Chris Afendulis, Anna Sinaiko and Richard G. Frank

Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard University and Harvard Medical School

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Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Plans in Miami-Dade County: Evidence of Status Quo Bias?

NBER Working Paper No. w19639

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2023

Anna Sinaiko, Chris Afendulis and Richard G. Frank

Harvard University, Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy and Harvard Medical School

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Pricing and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health

NBER Working Paper No. w1514

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2022

Richard G. Frank

Harvard Medical School

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Citation 1

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High-Priced Drugs in Medicare Part D: Diagnosis and Potential Prescription

NBER Working Paper No. w24240

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022

Richard G. Frank and Richard J. Zeckhauser

Harvard Medical School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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The Effect of Mental Distress on Income: Results from a Community Survey

NBER Working Paper No. w2433

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022

Richard G. Frank and Paul J. Gertler

Harvard Medical School and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

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Access to Long-Term Care after a Wealth Shock: Evidence from the Housing Bubble and Burst

NBER Working Paper No. w23781

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2023

Joan Costa-Font, Richard G. Frank and Katherine Swartz

London School of Economics, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

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Economic Rents Derived from Hospital Privileges in the Market for Podiatric Services

NBER Working Paper No. w2207

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022

Richard G. Frank, Jonathan Weiner, Donald M. Steinwachs and David S. Salkever

Harvard Medical School, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Health Policy and Management and UMBC, Department of Public Policy

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Poverty Programs, Initiation of Prenatal Care and the Rate of Low Birthweight Births

NBER Working Paper No. w3215

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2022

Richard G. Frank, Donna M. Strobino, David S. Salkever and Catherine A. Jackson

Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University - School of Hygiene and Public Health, UMBC, Department of Public Policy and University of Maryland

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Managed Behavioral Health Care Carve-Outs: Past Performance and Future Prospects

Annual Review of Public Health, Vol. 28, April 2007

Posted: 24 Dec 2007

Richard G. Frank and Rachel L. Garfield

Harvard Medical School and Harvard University - Department of Health Care Policy

Richard G. Frank

Harvard Medical School

Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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