Data and Code for: Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University; Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Liran Einav, Stanford University; Abigail Ostriker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Heidi Williams, Stanford University

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Project Citation: 

Oostrom, Tamar, Finkelstein, Amy, Einav, Liran, Ostriker, Abigail, and Williams, Heidi. Data and Code for: Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-11-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120217V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary We analyze selection into screening in the context of recommendations that breast cancer screening start at age 40. Combining medical claims with a clinical oncology model, we document that compliers with the recommendation are less likely to have cancer than younger women who select into screening or women who never screen. We show this selection is quantitatively important: shifting the recommendation from age 40 to 45 results in three times as many deaths if compliers were randomly selected than under the estimated patterns of selection. The results highlight the importance of considering characteristics of compliers when making and designing recommendations. 

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      I11 Analysis of Health Care Markets
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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