Zack Cooper

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Zack Cooper is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Zack Cooper has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in General Health Professions and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Zack Cooper's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (20 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 papers). Zack Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (20 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 papers). Zack Cooper collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Zack Cooper's co-authors include Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, John Van Reenen, Alistair McGuire, Simon Jones, Stephen Gibbons, Fiona Scott Morton, Julian Le Grand, M. P. Skellern and Harlan M. Krumholz and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS ONE and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Zack Cooper

21 papers receiving 972 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured*

2018 337 citations Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zack Cooper United States	12	834	684	86	53	52	22	1.0k
Stuart Guterman United States	17	755 0.9×	644 0.9×	46 0.5×	31 0.6×	43 0.8×	59	1.0k
Nancy Beaulieu United States	16	706 0.8×	698 1.0×	48 0.6×	53 1.0×	70 1.3×	34	1.2k
Tor Iversen Norway	20	734 0.9×	626 0.9×	122 1.4×	22 0.4×	25 0.5×	61	1.1k
William B. Vogt United States	20	1.0k 1.2×	615 0.9×	96 1.1×	37 0.7×	125 2.4×	56	1.5k
Abe Dunn United States	14	520 0.6×	382 0.6×	54 0.6×	41 0.8×	67 1.3×	49	886
Martin Chalkley United Kingdom	16	696 0.8×	600 0.9×	103 1.2×	45 0.8×	17 0.3×	43	1.1k
Jonathan Kolstad United States	15	1.1k 1.3×	846 1.2×	129 1.5×	25 0.5×	36 0.7×	33	1.4k
Leemore Dafny United States	19	1.3k 1.5×	872 1.3×	146 1.7×	68 1.3×	22 0.4×	48	1.6k
Jonathan Oberlander United States	21	673 0.8×	641 0.9×	57 0.7×	23 0.4×	32 0.6×	97	1.2k
Martin Emmert Germany	17	597 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	45 0.5×	47 0.9×	64 1.2×	63	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zack Cooper

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Brot-Goldberg, Zarek, et al.. (2024). Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital Mergers. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Brot-Goldberg, Zarek, et al.. (2024). Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the Us Hospital Sector?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2024). Is There Too Little Antitrust Enforcement in the US Hospital Sector?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 6(4). 526–542. 5 indexed citations

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2023). Politics and Healthcare Spending in the United States: A Case Study from the Passage of The 2003 Medicare Modernization Act. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2022). Geographical Variation in Health Spending Across the US Among Privately Insured Individuals and Enrollees in Medicaid and Medicare. JAMA Network Open. 5(7). e2222138–e2222138. 22 indexed citations

Chernew, Michael E., et al.. (2021). Physician agency, consumerism, and the consumption of lower-limb MRI scans. Journal of Health Economics. 76. 102427–102427. 16 indexed citations

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2021). Hospital Lawsuits Over Unpaid Bills Increased By 37 Percent In Wisconsin From 2001 To 2018. Health Affairs. 40(12). 1830–1835. 6 indexed citations

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2019). Hospital Prices Grew Substantially Faster Than Physician Prices For Hospital-Based Care In 2007–14. Health Affairs. 38(2). 184–189. 65 indexed citations

Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2019). Variation In Health Spending Growth For The Privately Insured From 2007 To 2014. Health Affairs. 38(2). 230–236. 13 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2019). Out-Of-Network Billing And Negotiated Payments For Hospital-Based Physicians. Health Affairs. 39(1). 24–32. 38 indexed citations

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Chernew, Michael E., et al.. (2018). Are Health Care Services Shoppable? Evidence from the Consumption of Lower-Limb MRI Scans. National Bureau of Economic Research. 3 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor, & John Van Reenen. (2018). The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 134(1). 51–107. 337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cooper, Zack, Stephen Gibbons, & M. P. Skellern. (2018). Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals' performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service. Journal of Public Economics. 166. 63–80. 44 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack & Fiona Scott Morton. (2016). Out-of-Network Emergency-Physician Bills — An Unwelcome Surprise. New England Journal of Medicine. 375(20). 1915–1918. 52 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack, et al.. (2016). The Price Ain't Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured. SSRN Electronic Journal. 25 indexed citations

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Dodson, John A., Yun Wang, Karthik Murugiah, et al.. (2015). National Trends in Hospital Readmission Rates among Medicare Fee-for-Service Survivors of Mitral Valve Surgery, 1999–2010. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132470–e0132470. 14 indexed citations

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Murugiah, Karthik, Yun Wang, John A. Dodson, et al.. (2014). Trends in Hospitalizations Among Medicare Survivors of Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States From 1999 to 2010. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 99(2). 509–517. 11 indexed citations

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Grand, Julian Le & Zack Cooper. (2013). Framing health reform. Health Economics Policy and Law. 8(2). 251–257. 2 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack, Stephen Gibbons, Simon Jones, & Alistair McGuire. (2011). Does Hospital Competition Save Lives? Evidence from the English NHS Patient Choice Reforms. The Economic Journal. 121(554). F228–F260. 289 indexed citations

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Cooper, Zack, Alistair McGuire, Simon Jones, & Julian Le Grand. (2009). Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. BMJ. 339(sep03 2). b3264–b3264. 88 indexed citations

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