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New in #JDevStudies: Riley League & Fitz [Lawrence University] use variation in rollout of Brazil’s 🇧🇷Bolsa Família program to analyze the impact of treatment durations on catch up growth socialprotection.org tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Early-life shocks often produce negative long-run consequences lasting into adulthood, but little is known about how childhood social programs interact with early-life environments. Riley League Riley League discusses the effect of early-life conditions on child health and

I’m currently on an email thread that includes the entire Duke med school with people replying-all to ask everyone else to stop replying-all. 17 emails so far. These are the administrative hassles that are holding back our health care system

Riley League NBER Riley League at it again presenting his JMP on administrative burdens NBER health econ meeting, his third paper on the program over the last four years.

Thrilled to see this out in the next issue of the QJE!

The NBER Mentoring Program on Aging and Health Economics is well underway. CurrentlyMark Sheppard and Riley League talking on data for health Econ!

Unfortunately my flight to San Diego for #ASHEcon2024 got delayed until tomorrow, but at least I get a night at the Sonesta to give me those econ vibes I crave

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The first day of school isn’t just for students 📚 We’re excited to welcome our newest faculty to the Gies Business Family! #WeAreGIES

Riley League, new assistant professor in the Department of Finance, comes to Gies after spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the NBER, a nonprofit organization that facilitates research and analysis of major economic issues. More with Riley: giesbusiness.illinois.edu/news/2024/09/1…

Check out the second episode of the new podcast hosted by our own Vitor Melo. This time featuring Riley League youtube.com/watch?v=rPKPw0…

The idea that the cost of healthcare could easily be reduced by cutting unnecessary admin is too good to be true: nber.org/papers/w33863

New work on administrative burdens from Riley League Maggie Shi

Examining the impact of reducing the administrative fragmentation of billing and payment by studying a Medicare reform that consolidated billing processes across service types, from Riley League and Maggie Shi nber.org/papers/w33863

The consolidation of dialysis facilities in the US between 2005 and 2019 was associated with increased commercial prices for outpatient hemodialysis and higher compensation for medical directors. ja.ma/4jT7hNV

Our latest work on consolidation in the dialysis industry, led by Xuyang Xia and joint with Paul Eliason Riley League et al.

🚨 New paper on #JAMAHealthForum 🚨 If you walk into a random dialysis facility in the US, there’s 🔹 An 80% chance it’s owned by DaVita or Fresenius 🔹 A 30% chance it has physician owners Both horizontal and vertical integration in this market have intensified over the past

Enjoyed sitting down with Erin F Moriarty on CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 to discuss the economics of the dialysis industry

In a paper published Wednesday in JAMA Health Forum, coauthored with Xuyang Xia Paul Eliason Riley League et al., we find that the US dialysis industry consolidated both horizontally and vertically from 2015 to 2019, with the share of facilities operated by DaVita and Fresenius

Dialysis chains use a number of other strategies to maximize profits at the expense of patients, such as forcing out those who might harm their performance scores nber.org/system/files/w…