Publications
Curto, Vilsa, Anna Sinaiko, and Meredith Rosenthal. 2022. "Price Effects of Vertical Integration and Joint Contracting between Physicians and Hospitals." Health Affairs 41(5): 741-750.
[Link to Published Version]
Featured on Health Affairs Podcast
Curto, Vilsa, and Monica Bhole. 2021. "Impacts of Early ACA Medicaid Expansions on Physician Participation." Health Services Research 1-11.
[Link to Published Version]
Curto, Vilsa, Liran Einav, Jonathan Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya. 2021. "Can Health Insurance Competition Work? Evidence from Medicare Advantage." Journal of Political Economy 129(2): 570-606.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Online Appendix] [Replication Files] [Link to Published Version]
Referenced in Testimony by Aviv Nevo in U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Aetna Inc., and Humana Inc.
Curto, Vilsa, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, Jonathan Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya. 2019. "Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 11 (2): 302–32.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Online Appendix] [Replication Files] [Link to Published Version]
Covered by The New York Times
Curto, Vilsa, and Roland Fryer. 2014. "The Potential of Urban Boarding Schools for the Poor: Evidence from SEED." Journal of Labor Economics 32 (1): 65–93.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Online Appendix] [Replication Files] [Link to Published Version]
Lusardi, Annamaria, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto. 2014. "Financial Literacy and Financial Sophistication in the Older Population." Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 13 (4): 347–66.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Link to Published Version]
Curto, Vilsa, Roland Fryer, and Meghan Howard. 2011. "It May Not Take a Village: Increasing Achievement among the Poor." In Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children’s Life Chances, edited by Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane, 483–506. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Link to Published Version]
Lusardi, Annamaria, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Vilsa Curto. 2010. "Financial Literacy among the Young." The Journal of Consumer Affairs 44 (2): 358–80.
[Pre-Publication Version] [Link to Published Version] [Just the Facts]
Covered by The New Republic, St. Louis Fed's Open Vault Blog
Research in Progress
Curto, Vilsa. "Pricing Regulations in Individual Health Insurance: Evidence from Medigap." Conditionally Accepted at the Journal of Health Economics.
[Manuscript] [Online Appendix]
Curto, Vilsa, Andrew Wilcock, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Patient Health Impacts of Medicare Advantage Using a Geographic Regression Discontinuity Approach." In Preparation.
Curto, Vilsa, Virginia Zhang, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Health Impacts of Medicare Advantage Plans during the COVID-19 Pandemic." In Preparation.
Curto, Vilsa, Virginia Zhang, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Characterizing Medicare Advantage Provider Networks Using a Geographic Regression Discontinuity Approach." In Preparation.
Curto, Vilsa, and Bruce Landon. "Variation in Coding Intensity across Medicare Advantage Plans." In Preparation.
Curto, Vilsa, Anna Sinaiko, and Meredith Rosenthal. "Steering Impacts of Physician-Hospital Vertical Relationships, Tiered Networks, and Health Equity." In Preparation.
Sinaiko, Anna, Vilsa Curto, Katherine Ianni, and Meredith Rosenthal. "Utilization, Steering, and Spending Impacts of Physician-Hospital Vertical Relationships." In Preparation.
Prager, Elena, Vilsa Curto, Alexa Magyari, Marema Gaye, and Anna Sinaiko. "Impacts of Tiered Physician Networks on Patient Choices among Specialist Physicians." In Preparation.
Sinaiko, Anna, Vilsa Curto, Elizabeth Bambury, Mark Soto, Meredith Rosenthal. "How Does Tiered Network Health Plan Penetration Vary with Characteristics of the Provider Market?" In Preparation.
Landon, Bruce, Timothy Anderson, Vilsa Curto, Peter Cram, Christina Fu, Gabe Weinreb, Alan Zaslavsky, John Ayanian. "Treatment Patterns for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage." Under Review.
Landon, Bruce, John Ayanian, Timothy Anderson, Vilsa Curto, Jeff Souza, and Alan Zaslavsky. "Changes in Utilization of Services and Quality of Care in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare 2010-2017." Under Review.