HPAM 7660 - Week 10 Materials

Research Design - Natural Experiments

Tuesday, March 19

• Readings - Khullar and Jena (2021) - Natural Experiments in Health Care Research and Allen et al. (2013) - The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: When Limited Resources Provide Research Opportunities
• Audio - Austin Frakt on Medicaid and the Oregon Medicaid Study and Jim Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and Causality
• Assignment - Reading/Audio Discussion Questions
• Slides - Natural Experiments & The Oregon Medicaid Study

Thursday, March 7

• Assignment - Policy Memo Introduction (See here for an example. You can also find a link to this document on the Resources page.)