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Bryan E Dowd is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on areas intersecting economics and health professions, with a substantial body of work in healthcare policy and management, health systems evaluations, and healthcare cost and quality practices.

Their main fields of study include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions. More specifically, Dowd's scholarly contributions span Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Statistics and Probability, Gender Studies, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

The core topics in Bryan E Dowd's research reflect diverse facets of healthcare and economic analysis:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

Dowd has contributed to multiple publication venues, with recurrent appearances in:

  • Health Services Research
  • The American Journal of Managed Care
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • JAMA
  • American Journal of Health Economics

Recent representative papers include the following:

  • "Requiem for odds ratios," 2024, Health Services Research
  • "Sources of inertia in the individual health insurance market," 2022, Journal of Public Economics
  • "Fee-for-service payment is not the (main) problem," 2020, Health Services Research
  • "Instrumental Variables and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects," 2022, JAMA
  • "An alternative model of maternity care for low-risk birth: Maternal and neonatal outcomes utilizing the midwifery-based birth center model," 2023, Health Services Research

Bryan E Dowd frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Roger Feldman, Tim McDonald, Shriram Parashuram, Woolton Lee, and Kathleen Rowan. These relationships have contributed to a multidisciplinary approach across their work.

Best Publications

  • Medical Groups’ Adoption Of Electronic Health Records And Information Systems

    David Gans;John Kralewski;Terry Hammons;Bryan Dowd

  • Screening elders for risk of hospital admission.

    Chad Boult;Bryan E Dowd;David McCaffrey;Lisa Boult

  • Marginal Effects-Quantifying the Effect of Changes in Risk Factors in Logistic Regression Models.

    Edward C. Norton;Edward C. Norton;Bryan E. Dowd;Matthew L. Maciejewski;Matthew L. Maciejewski

  • A randomized clinical trial of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management.

    Chad Boult;Lisa B. Boult;Lynne Morishita;Bryan E Dowd

  • A new estimate of the welfare loss of excess health insurance.

    Roger D Feldman;Bryan E Dowd

  • Log Odds and the Interpretation of Logit Models.

    Edward C. Norton;Edward C. Norton;Bryan E. Dowd

  • Odds Ratios-Current Best Practice and Use.

    Edward C. Norton;Bryan E. Dowd;Matthew L. Maciejewski

  • The Demand for Employment-Based Health Insurance Plans

    Roger Feldman;Bryan Dowd

  • The Effects of Market Concentration and Horizontal Mergers on Hospital Costs and Prices

    Robert A. Connor;Roger D. Feldman;Bryan E. Dowd

  • Maternity Leave Duration and Postpartum Mental and Physical Health: Implications for Leave Policies

    Rada K. Dagher;Patricia M. McGovern;Bryan E. Dowd

  • Societal and Family Lifetime Cost of Dementia: Implications for Policy

    Eric Jutkowitz;Robert L. Kane;Joseph E. Gaugler;Richard F. MacLehose

  • The Relationship of House Staff Experience to the Cost and Quality of Inpatient Care

    Eugene C. Rich;Gregory Gifford;Michael Luxenberg;Bryan Dowd

  • Postpartum Health of Employed Mothers 5 Weeks After Childbirth

    Patricia M McGovern;Bryan E Dowd;Dwenda K Gjerdingen;Cynthia R Gross

  • Time off work and the postpartum health of employed women

    Patricia M McGovern;Bryan E Dowd;Dwenda K Gjerdingen;Ira S Moscovice

  • Assessing the influence of incentives on physicians and medical groups.

    Robert Town;Douglas R. Wholey;John Kralewski;Bryan Dowd

  • The Effect of Benefits, Premiums, and Health Risk on Health Plan Choice in the Medicare Program

    Adam Atherly;Bryan E. Dowd;Roger Feldman

  • Racial Variation In Quality Of Care Among Medicare+Choice Enrollees

    Beth A. Virnig;Nicole Lurie;Zhen Huang;Dorothea Musgrave

  • Mothers’ Health and Work-Related Factors at 11 Weeks Postpartum

    Patricia M McGovern;Bryan E Dowd;Dwenda K Gjerdingen;Rada Dagher

  • Quality-of-life weights for the US population : Self-reported health status and priority health conditions, by demographic characteristics

    John A. Nyman;Nathan A. Barleen;Bryan E. Dowd;Daniel W. Russell

  • Which types of hospital mergers save consumers money

    Robert A. Connor;Roger D. Feldman;Bryan E. Dowd;Tiffany A. Radcliff

  • The effects of medical group practice and physician payment methods on costs of care.

    J. E. Kralewski;E. C. Rich;Roger D Feldman;Bryan E Dowd

  • Health Plan Choice and the Utilization of Health Care Services

    Bryan Dowd;Roger Feldman;Steven Cassou;Michael Finch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon B. Christianson
Jon B. Christianson University of Minnesota
John A. Nyman
John A. Nyman University of Minnesota
Nicole Lurie
Nicole Lurie Harvard University
Ira Moscovice
Ira Moscovice University of Minnesota
Patricia M. McGovern
Patricia M. McGovern University of Minnesota
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud University of Minnesota
Daniel W. Russell
Daniel W. Russell Iowa State University
Edward C. Norton
Edward C. Norton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John W. Welte
John W. Welte University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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