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David L. Weimer is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on economics, health professions, and social sciences. Specifically, their work contributes to areas such as economics and econometrics, general health professions, sociology and political science, gender studies, and genetics.

The scholar's research interests cover key topics including patient satisfaction in healthcare, healthcare policy and management, fiscal policy and economic growth, economic and environmental valuation, geriatric care and nursing homes, gender, labor, and family dynamics, as well as intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving.

David L. Weimer has authored or contributed to a number of papers published in varied academic venues. Notable recent works include:

  • "Going the Extra Mile? How Provider Network Design Increases Consumer Travel Distance, Particularly for Rural Consumers" (2020, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law)
  • "Efficiency without Apology: Consideration of the Marginal Excess Tax Burden and Distributional Impacts in Benefit-Cost Analysis" (2020, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis)
  • "Standing in Cost-Benefit Analysis: Where, Who, What (Counts)?" (2022, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management)
  • "Families' and Residents' Perspectives of the Quality of Nursing Home Care: Implications for Composite Quality Measures" (2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)
  • "Mixed signals: The inadequacy of provider-per-enrollee ratios for assessing network adequacy in California (and elsewhere)" (2021, World Medical & Health Policy)

Their frequent coauthors include Aidan R. Vining, Dana B. Mukamel, Simon F. Haeder, Anthony E. Boardman, and David H. Greenberg. These collaborations reflect a range of interdisciplinary efforts within policy analysis, health economics, and related fields.

David L. Weimer's publications have appeared multiple times in scholarly venues such as:

  • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • World Medical & Health Policy
  • Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

In addition to articles, they have contributed to academic book literature. Notably, Weimer authored "Dog Economics," published by Cambridge University Press in 2024, which is also cited in further academic discussions.

Best Publications

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice

    Anthony E. Boardman;David H. Greenberg;Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • Policy analysis : concepts and practice

    David Leo Weimer;Aidan R. Vining

  • The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples

    Robert P. Berrens;Alok K. Bohara;Hank Jenkins‐Smith;Carol Silva

  • Organizational report cards

    William T. Gormley;David Leo Weimer

  • “Just give me a number!” Practical values for the social discount rate

    Mark A. Moore;Anthony E. Boardman;Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • Early identification and treatment of Alzheimer's disease: Social and fiscal outcomes

    David L. Weimer;Mark A. Sager

  • Information and effort in contingent valuation surveys: application to global climate change using national internet samples ☆

    Robert P. Berrens;Alok K. Bohara;Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Carol L. Silva

  • School Performance and Housing Values: Using Non-Contiguous District and Incorporation Boundaries To Identify School Effects.

    David L. Weimer;Michael J. Wolkoff

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice, 3rd Edition

    Anthony E Boardman;David H Greenberg;Aidan R Vining;David L Weimer

  • Government Supply and Government Production Failure: A Framework Based on Contestability

    Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • Publication of quality report cards and trends in reported quality measures in nursing homes.

    Dana B. Mukamel;David L. Weimer;William D. Spector;Heather Ladd

  • Quality report cards, selection of cardiac surgeons, and racial disparities: A study of the publication of the New York State Cardiac Surgery Reports

    Dana B. Mukamel;David L. Weimer;Jack Zwanziger;Shih Fang Huang Gorthy

  • Racial differences in access to high-quality cardiac surgeons.

    Dana B. Mukamel;Ananthram S. Murthy;David L. Weimer

  • You Can't Make Me Do It: State Implementation of Insurance Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act

    Simon F. Haeder;David L. Weimer

  • The Performance of Charter Schools in Wisconsin.

    John Witte;David Weimer;Arnold Shober;Paul Schlomer

  • The Current State of Design Craft: Borrowing, Tinkering, and Problem Solving

    David L. Weimer

  • An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application of Benefit-Cost Analysis to Social Policy

    Aidan R. Vining;David L. Weimer

  • The political economy of property rights : institutional change and credibility in the reform of centrally planned economies

    David Leo Weimer

  • Policy Analysis and Evidence: A Craft Perspective

    David L. Weimer

  • Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Health Care Quality: The Impacts of Regulation and Report Cards

    Dana B. Mukamel;Simon F. Haeder;David L. Weimer

  • From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

    David L. Weimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Sharit
Joseph Sharit University of Miami
Charlene Harrington
Charlene Harrington University of California, San Francisco
James S. Jackson
James S. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Emily E. Tanner-Smith
Emily E. Tanner-Smith University of Oregon
Mark A. Sager
Mark A. Sager University of Wisconsin–Madison

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