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Emilia Simeonova Assistant Professor Institute for International Economic emilia.simeonova{at}iies.su.se tel: +46-8-164586 |
Fields
of interest:
Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics and Policy, Aging and Retirement
Current teaching
Graduate Applied Microeconomics
Completed Research
Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Mortality Gap: What Are the Causes?
(under
review)
An earlier version of the paper
is available as a Columbia Discussion paper 0708-15
In Sickness and in Health: How Does Marriage Affect
Survival in the Chronically Ill?
(under
review)
Work in progress
What Happens When Charity Care Requirements
Expire? Evidence from Hill-Burton Hospitals in
Abstract: Governments have tried various
strategies to give incentives to private entities to increase their charitable
contributions. Health has traditionally been an area in which charity has been
expected, but also hard to prompt by public policy. In this paper we use the
expiration of charity care requirements imposed on private hospitals to
investigate the effect on hospitals’ admission practices and maternal and
infant health. We use the universe of births in
Do Electronic Patient Record Systems Improve the Quality of Health
Care?
Abstract: A great deal has been said about the
anticipated positive effects of an electronic patient records system, however there are no studies that demonstrate
evidence of its impact. While still a novelty in the private health care
sector, computerized patient records have been in use in the Veterans Health
Administration medical centers for a decade. In this paper I use a unique
dataset of patients suffering from chronic heart failure and their interactions
with physicians to investigate the effect of the electronic patient records
system on doctors’ and patients’ behavior and ultimately on
patients’ health outcomes. The system was implemented across the national
network of medical centers between 1995 and 2005. The differential timing of
the implementation is used for identification. Preliminary evidence suggests
that electronic records improved physicians’ compliance with clinical
guidelines and had a positive effect on patients’ survival.
How Does Stress Affect Infant
Health? (with Janet Currie)
Publications
“Choice of Currency in Bond Issuance and the
International Role of Currencies” with Cristina Vespro
and Nikolaus Siegfried, European Central Bank Working
Paper 814