Jonathan S. Skinner
Department of Economics
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: 603/646-2535
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: 
WWW: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jskinner/
NBER Program Affiliations:
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NBER Affiliation: Research Associate
Institutional Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Information about this author at RePEc
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| December 2019 | Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits
with Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker
in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 34, Robert A. Moffitt, editor
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| November 2019 | Does One Medicare Fit All? The Economics of Uniform Health Insurance Benefits
with Mark Shepard, Katherine Baicker: w26472
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| November 2016 | Hospital Competition, Quality, and Expenditures in the U.S. Medicare Population
with Carrie Colla, Julie Bynum, Andrea Austin: w22826
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| March 2016 | Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging? Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States, 1993–2010
with Amitabh Chandra, Tyler Hoppenfeld
in Insights in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| July 2015 | Comment on "Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy in the U.S. Elderly Population"
in Insights in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| June 2014 | Comment on "The Nexus of Social Security Benefits, Health, and Wealth at Death"
in Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| The Diffusion of New Medical Technology: The Case of Drug-Eluting Stents
with Amitabh Chandra, David Malenka
in Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| December 2013 | Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending
with Amitabh Chandra, Jonathan Holmes: w19700
Published: Amitabh Chandra & Jonathan Holmes & Jonathan Skinner, 2013. "Is This Time Different? The Slowdown in Healthcare Spending," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 47(2 (Fall)), pages 261-323. citation courtesy of 
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| September 2013 | The Economics of Variations in Health and Health Care
NBER Reporter 2013 number 3
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| August 2013 | Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending
with David Cutler, Ariel Dora Stern, David Wennberg: w19320
Published: David Cutler & Jonathan S. Skinner & Ariel Dora Stern & David Wennberg, 2019. "Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol 11(1), pages 192-221. citation courtesy of
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| April 2011 | The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research
with Amitabh Chandra, Anupam B. Jena: w16990
Published: Amitabh Chandra & Anupam B. Jena & Jonathan S. Skinner, 2011. "The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 25(2), pages 27-46, Spring. citation courtesy of
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| Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care
with Amitabh Chandra: w16953
Published: Amitabh Chandra & Jonathan Skinner, 2012. "Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 50(3), pages 645-80, September. citation courtesy of
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| March 2011 | Cost Growth in Medicare: 1992 to 2006
with Amitabh Chandra, Lindsay Sabik
in Explorations in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at the End of Life
with Samuel Marshall, Kathleen McGarry
in Explorations in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| February 2011 | Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
with Katherine Baicker: w16772
Published: Katherine Baicker & Jonathan Skinner, 2011. "Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates," Tax Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 25(1), pages 39 - 68.
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| December 2010 | Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
with Katherine Baicker
in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 25, Jeffrey Brown, editor
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| July 2010 | The Risk of Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure at End of Life
with Samuel Marshall, Kathleen M. McGarry: w16170
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| February 2010 | Education and the Prevalence of Pain
with Steven J. Atlas
in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| Comment on "The Narrowing Dispersion of Medicare Expenditures 1997-2005"
in Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| June 2009 | Comment on "The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows"
in Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment, Jeffrey R. Brown, Jeffrey B. Liebman and David A. Wise, editors
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| May 2009 | Education and the Prevalence of Pain
with Steven J. Atlas: w14964
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| April 2009 | Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care
with Douglas Staiger: w14865
Published: Jonathan Skinner & Douglas Staiger, 2015. "Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care," Review of Economics and Statistics, vol 97(5), pages 951-964. citation courtesy of
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| March 2009 | Comment on "Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment(TM)"
in Developments in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| Comment on "Trends in Prescription Drug Use by the Disabled Elderly"
in Developments in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| August 2008 | Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?
with Alan M. Garber: w14257
Published: Alan M. Garber & Jonathan Skinner, 2008. "Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 22(4), pages 27-50, Fall. citation courtesy of
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| October 2007 | Technology Adoption from Hybrid Corn to Beta-Blockers
with Douglas Staiger
in Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Honor of Zvi Griliches, Ernst R. Berndt and Charles R. Hulten, editors
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| March 2007 | Are You Sure You're Saving Enough for Retirement?
w12981
Published: Jonathan Skinner, 2007. "Are You Sure You’re Saving Enough for Retirement?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 21(3), pages 59-80, Summer. citation courtesy of
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| September 2006 | Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States
in Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan, David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro, editors
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| August 2005 | The Efficiency of Medicare
with Elliott S. Fisher, John Wennberg
in Analyses in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| April 2005 | Technology Adoption From Hybrid Corn to Beta Blockers
with Douglas Staiger: w11251
Published:
- Culyer, A.J. and J. P. Newhouse (eds.) Handbook of Health Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2000.
- Jonathan Skinner & Douglas Staiger, 2005. "Technology adoption from hybrid corn to beta blockers," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. citation courtesy of
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| October 2004 | The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population
with Weiping Zhou: w10842
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| June 2004 | Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality among U.S. Elderly
with Victor R. Fuchs, Mark B. McClellan
in Perspectives on the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| February 2003 | Geography and Racial Health Disparities
with Amitabh Chandra: w9513
Published: Anderson, Norman B., Rodolfo A. Bulatao, and Barney Cohen (eds). Critical Perspectives: on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life, National Research Council 2004. The National Academies Press: Washington D.C.
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| December 2001 | Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly
with Victor R. Fuchs, Mark McClellan: w8628
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| July 2001 | The Efficiency of Medicare
with Elliott Fisher, John E. Wennberg: w8395
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| April 2001 | Saving Puzzles and Saving Policies in the United States
with Annamaria Lusardi, Steven Venti: w8237
Published: A Lusardi & J Skinner & S Venti, 2001. "Saving puzzles and saving policies in the United States," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 17(1), pages 95-115, Spring. citation courtesy of
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| February 2001 | Are For-Profit Hospitals Really Different? Medicare Upcoding and Market Structure
with Elaine Silverman: w8133
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| September 2000 | Do the Rich Save More?
with Karen E. Dynan, Stephen P. Zeldes: w7906
Published: Dynan, Karen E., Jonathan Skinner and Stephen P. Zeldes. "Do The Rich Save More?," Journal of Political Economy, 2004, v112(2,Apr), 397-444. citation courtesy of
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| January 2000 | Regional Inequality in Medicare Spending: The Key to Medicare Reform?
with John E. Wennberg
in Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 3, Alan M. Garber, editor
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| How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life
with John Wennberg
in The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions, David M. Cutler, editor
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| January 1999 | The Distributional Effects of Medicare
with Julie Lee, Mark McClellan
in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 13, James Poterba, editor
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| The Distributional Effects of Medicare
with Julie Lee, Mark McClellan: w6910
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| July 1998 | How Will Defined Contribution Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income?
with Andrew A. Samwick: w6645
Published: Samwick, Andrew A. and Jonathan Skinner. "How Will 401(k) Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income?," American Economic Review, 2004, v94(1,Mar), 329-343.
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| April 1998 | How Much is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life
with John E. Wennberg: w6513
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| October 1997 | What Accounts for the Variation in Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?
with B. Douglas Bernheim, Steven Weinberg: w6227
Published: Bernheim, B. Douglas, Jonathan Skinner and Steven Weinberg. "What Accounts For The Variation In Retirement Wealth Among U.S. Households?," American Economic Review, 2001, v91(4,Sep), 832-857. citation courtesy of
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| April 1997 | The Incidence of Medicare
with Mark McClellan: w6013
Published: McClellan, Mark and Jonathan Skinner. "The Incidence Of Medicare," Journal of Public Economics, 2006, v90(1-2,Jan), 257-276. citation courtesy of
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| November 1996 | Taxation and Economic Growth
with Eric M. Engen: w5826
Published: National Tax Journal (december 1996) citation courtesy of
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| July 1996 | Assessing the Effectiveness of Saving Incentives
with R. Glenn Hubbard: w5686
Published:
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| May 1996 | Abandoning the Nest Egg? 401(k) Plans and Inadequate Pension Saving
with Andrew A. Samwick: w5568
Published: Public Policy Towards Pensions, Schieber, Sylvester J. and John B. Shoven,eds., Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, pp. 197-217.
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| January 1996 | Is Housing Wealth a Sideshow?
in Advances in the Economics of Aging, David A. Wise, editor
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| October 1994 | Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance
with R. Glenn Hubbard, Stephen P. Zeldes: w4884
Published: Journal of Political Economy 103(2), April 1995, pp. 360-399 citation courtesy of
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| January 1994 | Housing and Saving in the United States
in Housing Markets in the United States and Japan, Yukio Noguchi and James M. Poterba, editors
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| November 1993 | The Importance of Precautionary Motives in Explaining Individual and Aggregate Saving
with R. Glenn Hubbard, Stephen P. Zeldes: w4516
Published: Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 40 (June 1994)pp. 59-126 citation courtesy of
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| Is Housing Wealth a Sideshow?
w4552
Published: D. Wise, ed., Advances in the Economics of Aging. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 241-268.
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| December 1992 | Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
with Eric M. Engen: w4223
Published: Taxation and Economic Growth, NTJ, Vol. 50, no. 4 (December 1997): 617- 642.
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| August 1992 | The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures
with Daniel Feenberg: w4147
Published: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 76(4), Nov. 1994, pp. 633-647 citation courtesy of
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| December 1991 | Individual Retirement Accounts: A Review of the Evidence
w3938
Published: Tax Notes, 54(2), January 13, 1992, pp.201-212
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| October 1991 | Housing and Saving in the United States
w3874
Published: Housing Markets in the United States and Japan, Yukio Noguchi and James M. Poterba, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
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| September 1990 | The Dynamic Efficiency Cost of Not taxing Housing
w3454
Published: The Journal of Public Economics, 59 (1996) 397-417. citation courtesy of
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| February 1990 | The Impact of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Personal Saving
with Daniel Feenberg: w3257
Published: Slemrod, Joel (ed.) Do Taxes Matter? The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990.
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| February 1989 | Housing Wealth and Aggregate Saving
w2842
Published:
- Skinner, Jonathan. "Housing Wealth And Aggregate Saving," Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1989, v19(2), 305-324. citation courtesy of
- Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 19, 1989, pp.305-324.
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| Sources of IRA Saving
with Daniel Feenberg: w2845
Published: in Tax Policy and the Economy, vol. 3, MIT Press: 1989, ed. Larry Summers
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| 1989 | Sources of IRA Saving
with Daniel Feenberg
in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 3, Lawrence H. Summers, editor
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| August 1987 | Taxation and Output Growth: Evidence from African Countries
w2335
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| Risky Income, Life Cycle Consumption, and Precautionary Savings
w2336
Published: Journal of Monetary Economics, September 1988, vol 22, pp. 237-255. citation courtesy of
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| June 1986 | The Welfare Cost of Uncertain Tax Policy
w1947
Published: Journal of Public Economics, November 1988, vol. 37, pp. 129-145. citation courtesy of
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| November 1984 | The Resolution of the Labor Scarcity Paradox
with John A. James: w1504
Published: James, John A. and Jonathan S. Skinner. "The Resolution of the Labor Scarcity Paradox," Journal of Economic History, Vol. 45, No. 3, (September 1985) pp. 513-540. citation courtesy of
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| December 1981 | The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform
with Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff: w0819
Published: Auerbach, Alan J., Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jonathan Skinner. "The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform." International Economic Review, Vol. 24 , No. 1, (February 1983), pp. 81-100. citation courtesy of
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