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Hospitals, communication, and dispute resolution : Florence R. LeCraw, Daniel Montanera, and Thomas A. Mroz criticize the statistical methods of a 2018 article in Health Affairs , and tell of their effort to get their criticisms into Health Affairs .
Health Insurance Mandates and the Marriage of Young Adults : Aaron Gamino comments on the statistical modeling in a 2022 Journal of Human Resources article, whose authors Scott Barkowski and Joanne Song McLaughlin reply .
Origins of the Opioid Crisis Reexamined : A 2022 article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics on the origins of the opioid crisis assigns considerable explanatory weight to the introduction and promotion of OxyContin. Robert Kaestner looks at the empirics behind the conclusion and suggests that it is without much foundation. (The commented-on authors were given very little time to reply concurrently and are welcome to reply in a future issue.)
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