Dartmouth takedown fail

A Federal Reserve Board of Governors working paper circulating in D.C. is not what it seems. It is an apparent takedown of decades of Dartmouth research on geographic variation in health spending. It turns out that its dubious conclusions are due to a single methodological choice. You don’t want to miss my explanation in my latest AcademyHealth post, do you?

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @afrakt. His day job is Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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