Douglas Staiger
John French Professor of Economics
Department of Economics

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Department of Economics
301 Rockefeller Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Office: 309A Silsby Hall
Phone: (603) 646-2979
Fax: (603) 646-2122
Email: Douglas.O.Staiger@dartmouth.edu

Selected Articles (Titles link to paper in pdf)

• Nurse Labor Market

  • “Better Late Than Never: Workforce Supply Implications of Later Entry Into Nursing,” Health Affairs, 26(1):178-185, January/February 2007 (with David Auerbach and Peter Buerhaus).
    
    

  • “New Signs of a Strengthening U.S. Nurse Labor Market?” Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, November 17th, 2004 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
    
    

  • “New Signs of a Strengthening U.S. Nurse Labor Market?” Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, November 17th, 2004 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
    
    

  • “Is The Current Shortage of Hospital Nurses Ending?” Health Affairs, 22(6):191-198, November/December 2003 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach)
    
    

  • "Implications of an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce," JAMA 2000; 283 (22): 2948-2954 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
     

  • "Why are registered nurse shortages concentrated in hospital specialty care units?" Nursing Economic$. 2000;18(3):111-116 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
     

  • "Associate degree graduates and the rapidly aging registered nurse workforce," Nursing Economic$. 2000; 18(4):178-184 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
     

  • "Expanding Career Opportunities for Women and the Declining Interest in Nursing as a Career," Nursing Economic$. 2000; 18(5):230-236 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
     

  • "Policy Responses to an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce," Nursing Economic$. 2000;18(6):278-284 (with Peter Buerhaus and David Auerbach).
     

  • "Trouble in the Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook for Nurse Earnings and Employment," Health Affairs, January/February, 18(1), 1999, 214-222 (with Peter Buerhaus ).
     

  • "Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence From a Natural Experiment," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #7258, 1999 (with Joanne Spetz and Ciaran Phibbs).
     

  • "Managed Care and the Nurse Workforce," JAMA, 276(18), November 13, 1996, 1487-1493 (with Peter Buerhaus ).

• School Accountability

  • “Photo Finish: Certification Does Not Guarantee a Winner,” Education Next, pp. 60-67, Winter 2007 (with Thomas Kane and Jonah Rockoff).
    
    

  • “Gender and Performance: Evidence From School Assignment By Randomized Lottery,” forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2006 (with Justine Hastings and Thomas Kane).
     

  • “Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job,” The Hamilton Project white paper 2006-01, the Hamilton Project, Washington, DC, 2006 (with Robert Gordon and Thomas Kane).
     

  • “Preferences and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in a Public School Choice Lottery,” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (forthcoming), April 2006  (with Justine Hastings and Thomas Kane).
     

  • “What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness?: Evidence from New York City”, forthcoming in Economics of Education Review (with Thomas Kane and Jonah Rockoff).
     

  • “Parental Preferences and School Competition: Evidence from a Public School Choice Program,” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper #11805, November 2005  (with Justine Hastings and Thomas Kane).
     

  • “The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation,” Journal of Public Economics, 91:915-937, June 2007 (with Justine Hastings, Thomas Kane and Jeffrey Weinstein).
     

  • “School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices,” American Law and Economics Review, 9(2):183-212, Summer 2006 (with Thomas Kane and Stephanie Riegg).
     

  • “School Accountability Ratings and Housing Values,” in Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 2003, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2003 (with Thomas Kane and Gavin Samms).

  • ”The Promise and Pitfalls of Using Imprecise School Accountability Measures,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(4):91-114, fall 2002 (with Thomas Kane).
     

  • ”Racial Subgroup Rules in School Accountability Systems,” Manuscript, 2002 (with Thomas Kane).
     

  • "Rigid Rules Will Damage Schools," New York Times Op-Ed, page A21, Monday, August 13, 2001 (with Thomas Kane).
     

  • "Improving School Accountability Sustems,"May 2002 (with Thomas Kane). (earlier version available as NBER working paper #8156).
     

  • "Volatility in School Test Scores: Implications for Test-Based Accountability Systems," Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002 (with Thomas Kane).
     

  • ”Randomly Accountable,” Education Next, Spring 2002, pp. 57-61 (with Thomas Kane and Jeffrey Geppert). (earlier version available as “Assessing the Definition of `Adequate Yearly Progress’ in the House and Senate Education Bills,” 2001).

 

• Quality of Medical Care

• “Do Race-Specific Models Explain Disparities in Treatments After Acute Myocardial Infarction?” American Heart Journal 153(5):785-791, May 2007 (with Ashish Jha, Amitabh Chandra, and Lee Lucas).
  
  

• “Creating Accountable Care Organizations: The Extended Hospital Medical Staff,” Health Affairs, web exclusive, 26(1):w44-w57, December 2006 (with Elliott Fisher, Julie Bynum, and Daniel Gottlieb).
  
  

• “Are Mortality Rates for Different Operations Related? Implications for Measuring the Quality of Non-Cardiac Surgery,” Medical Care, 44(8):774-778, August 2006 (with Justin Dimick and John Birkmeyer).
  
  

• “Operative Mortality and Procedure Volume as Predictors of Subsequent Hospital Performance,” Annals of Surgery, 243(3):411-417, March 2006 (with John Birkmeyer and Justine Dimick).
   

• “Is Technological Change in Medicine Always Worth It? The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction,” Health Affairs, Web Exclusive, February 7, 2006 (with Jonathan Skinner and Elliott Fisher).
   

• “Mortality Among Very Low Birthweight Infants in Hospitals Serving Minority Populations,” American Journal of Public Health, 95(12):2206-2212, December 2005, (with Leo S Morales, Jeffery D Horbar, Joseph Carpenter, Michael Kenny, Jeffery Geppert, and Jeannette Rogowski).
   

• “Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals That Disproportionately Treat Black Patients,” Circulation, 112:2634-2641, October 25, 2005 (with Jonathan Skinner, Amitabh Chandra, Julie Lee, and Mark McClellan).
   

• “Hospital-level Racial Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment and Outcomes,” Medical Care, 43(4):308-319, April 2005 (with Amber Barnato, Lee Lucas, David Wennberg and Amitabh Chandra).
   

• “Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality,” forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2005 (with Katherine Baicker).
   

• “Productivity Spillovers in Healthcare: Evidence From the Treatment of Heart Attacks,” Journal of Political Economy, 115(1):103-140, February 2007 (with Amitabh Chandra).
   

• “Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers”, National Bureau of Economic Research working paper #11251, March 2005 (with Jonathan Skinner).
   

• “Variations in the quality of care for very low birth weight infants: Implications for policy”, Health Affairs, 23(5):88-97, September/October 2004 (with Jeffrey Horbar and Jeannette Rogowski).
   

• “Indirect vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants,” JAMA, 291(2): 202-209, January 14, 2004 (with Jeannette Rogowski, Jeffrey Horbar, Michael Kenny, Joseph Carpenter, Jeffrey Geppert).
   

• ”Improving Provider Profiles for Assessing Quality of Care in a High Risk Patient Population,” Manuscript 2002 (with Jeannette Rogowski, Jeffrey Horbar, Michael Kenney, Jeffrey Geppert, and Mark McClellan).
   

• "The Quality of Health Care Providers," National Bureau of Economic Research Working paper #7327, August 1999 (with Mark McClellan).
   

• "Comparing the Quality of Health Care Providers," in Alan Garber (ed.) Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 3. 2000, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pp. 113-136 (with Mark McClellan).
   

• "How Do Good Hospitals Do It? Estimating the Effects of Medical Practice" Manuscript, 2000 (with Jeffrey Geppert and Mark McClellan).
   

• "Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals," in David Cutler (ed.) The Changing Hospital Industry. 2000, University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, pp. 93-112 (with Mark McClellan). (also NBER working paper #7324).
  

• IV and Econometrics

  • ”Instrumental Variables,” powerpoint presentation and handout from AcademyHealth Cyber Seminar in Health Services Research Methods, March 2002.
     

  • "Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments," with James H. Stock, Econometrica, 65(3), May 1997, 557-586.
     

  • "Estimating Returns to Schooling when Schooling is Misreported," with Thomas Kane and Cecilia E. Rouse, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #7235, 1999.

  
  

• Philips Curve

  • “Prices, Wages and the U.S. NAIRU in the 1990s” with James Stock and Mark Watson, in Alan Krueger and Robert Solow, Eds., The Roaring Nineties, Russel Sage Foundation, New York, 2002, pp. 3-60 (also NBER working paper #8320).
     

  • "The NAIRU, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy," with James H. Stock and Mark Watson, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(1), Winter 1997, 33-49.
     

  • "How Precise are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment," with James H. Stock and Mark Watson,in Christina Romer and David Romer (ed.) Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy, University of Chicago Press, 1997 (also NBER working paper #5477).
    

• Fertility

  • “Abortion and Selection,” forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics (with Elizabeth Ananat, Jonathan Gruber and Phillip Levine)
     

  • “Abortion Policy and Fertility Outcomes: The Eastern European Experience,” Journal of Law and Economics, 47(1):223-243, April 2004 (with Phil Levine).
     

  • "Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the Marginal Child'," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(1), 1999, 263-291 (with Jonathan Gruber and Phillip Levine). (also NBER working paper #6034).
     

  • "Roe V. Wade and American Fertility," American Journal of Public Health, 89(2), 1999, 199-103 (with Phillip Levine, Thomas Kane and David Zimmerman). (also NBER working paper #5615).
     

  • "Health Insurance and Female Labor Supply in Taiwan," The Journal of Health Economics. 2001;20(2):187-212 (with Y.J. Chou).
     

  • ”An Economic Model of Teen Motherhood: Opportunity Costs, Biological Constraints, and the Timing of First Birth,” Manuscript 2001 (with Jonathan Wilwerding).
     

  • ”Teen Motherhood and Abortion Access,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111(2):467-506, 1996 (with Tom Kane).
    
    

Current Research (with Links to Working Papers)

Titles of selected working papers and collaborators are listed below. Please contact me if you are interested in any of the papers not available for download here or are particularly interested in having the most recent version.

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