@article{camilleri_diebold_2019, title={Hospital uncompensated care and patient experience: An instrumental variable approach}, volume={54}, ISSN={["1475-6773"]}, DOI={10.1111/1475-6773.13111}, abstractNote={ObjectiveExamine the endogenous relationship between uncompensated care and hospital patient experience scores.}, number={3}, journal={HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH}, author={Camilleri, Susan and Diebold, Jeffrey}, year={2019}, month={Jun}, pages={603–612} }
 @article{diebold_camilleri_2018, title={An experimental analysis of modifications to the survivor benefit information within the Social Security statement}, volume={19}, ISSN={1474-7472 1475-3022}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474747218000082}, DOI={10.1017/S1474747218000082}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Pension Economics and Finance}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Diebold, Jeffrey and Camilleri, Susan}, year={2018}, month={Mar}, pages={21–48} }
 @article{diebold_reitano_mcdonald_2018, title={SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF: STRATEGIC SELECTION OF PENSION POLICIES USED TO DEFER REQUIRED CONTRIBUTIONS}, volume={36}, ISSN={["1465-7287"]}, DOI={10.1111/coep.12236}, abstractNote={The administrators of state‐sponsored defined benefit public pension plans have considerable discretion to determine the accounting and actuarial parameters used to calculate the normal cost contributions and amortization payments that, together, comprise the sponsoring state's annual required contribution amount. Using longitudinal data from the Public Pension Database and a fixed effects approach, we find evidence that suggests plan administrators decisions about cost and amortization methods are influenced by the normal cost and amortization payments, respectively. When these costs increase, administrators tend to use less prudent methods that defer, or keep low, the pension contributions required from the state while, simultaneously, and perversely, improving the appearance of the plan's funded status and the state's funding discipline. (JEL H75)}, number={3}, journal={CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY}, publisher={Wiley-Blackwell}, author={Diebold, Jeffrey and Reitano, Vincent and McDonald, Bruce}, year={2018}, month={Jul}, pages={505–525} }
 @article{diebold_coggburn_2018, title={The Determinants and Opportunity Costs of External Management Fees for State-Administered Pension Plans}, volume={38}, ISSN={["1540-5850"]}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85052823056&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.1111/pbaf.12207}, abstractNote={Private investment firms receive billions of dollars in fees to actively manage the assets held within state pension funds. We examine the determinants of the fees paid and find that more financially burdensome plans tend to pay more. The magnitude of this relationship declines as the size of the plan increases, suggesting economies of scale. These fees do not appear to be associated with higher pension fund returns. Finally, we calculate the opportunity costs of fees and estimate that most pension funds would be better financially positioned today if they had, instead, passively invested the fees in broad‐based market indices.}, number={4}, journal={PUBLIC BUDGETING AND FINANCE}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Diebold, Jeffrey and Coggburn, Jerrell D.}, year={2018}, month={Dec}, pages={3–31} }
 @article{diebold_2018, title={The Effects of Medicare Part D on Health Outcomes of Newly Covered Medicare Beneficiaries}, volume={73}, ISSN={["1758-5368"]}, DOI={10.1093/geronb/gbw030}, abstractNote={Objectives
To estimate the impact of Medicare Part D on cost-related prescription nonadherence and health outcomes among the newly covered medicare beneficiaries.


Method
Difference-in-differences analyses of data from a balanced panel of Medicare beneficiaries observed in each wave of the Health and Retirement Study from 2000 to 2010 were carried out. The differences in the pre- and post-Part D changes in these outcomes are calculated for previously uncovered Part D enrollees and a comparison group of previously covered Medicare beneficiaries.


Results
The results from this analysis indicate that Part D reduced cost-related nonadherence rates among the newly covered by 7 percentage points and that this decline was sustained through 2010. Part D was also associated with a 5 percentage points increase in the likelihood that a newly covered enrollee reported to be in good or better health and a 4-percentage point decline in the likelihood of being diagnosed with high blood pressure. These improvements were also sustained through 2010 but were only evident among those newly covered beneficiaries who remained enrolled in a Part D plan through 2010. However, there is insufficient evidence to conclude that Part D improved the blood pressure of newly covered, hypertensive beneficiaries.


Discussion
Part D has had a sustained impact on cost-related nonadherence rates and the health status of newly covered beneficiaries. However, the change in health status is conditional on remaining enrolled in a Part D plan over time.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES}, author={Diebold, Jeffrey}, year={2018}, month={Jul}, pages={890–900} }
 @article{diebold_moulton_scott_2017, title={Early claiming of higher-earning husbands, the survivor benefit, and the incidence of poverty among recent widows}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1475-3022"]}, DOI={10.1017/s1474747215000438}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF PENSION ECONOMICS & FINANCE}, author={Diebold, Jeffrey and Moulton, Jeremy and Scott, John}, year={2017}, month={Oct}, pages={485–508} }
 @article{stewart_diebold_2017, title={Turnover at the Top: Investigating Performance-Turnover Sensitivity among Nonprofit Organizations}, volume={40}, ISSN={["1557-9271"]}, DOI={10.1080/15309576.2017.1340900}, abstractNote={ABSTRACT Research has confirmed private firm performance as a predictor of executive turnover, but whether this relationship holds in other organizational contexts—especially those operating without a profit-distribution requirement—is not known. For nonprofit organizations, performance monitoring and governance largely occur behind closed doors under the leadership of a volunteer board of directors. Nonprofits are commonly criticized as inefficient, even ineffective, and the accountability of boards and executives for organizational performance has not been sufficiently investigated. This article engages a unique dataset of 998 U.S.-based nonprofits serving missions related to the arts, health, and human services, and uses a multiple-spell discrete-time hazard model to evaluate nonprofit financial performance and the likelihood of executive turnover. The findings provide preliminary support that tenure in the executive office is sensitive to nonprofit financial performance, and in doing so, they raise new insights about the accountability of nonprofit executives.}, number={4}, journal={PUBLIC PERFORMANCE & MANAGEMENT REVIEW}, author={Stewart, Amanda J. and Diebold, Jeffrey}, year={2017}, pages={741–764} }