Amanda Cook Ph.D.

Amanda Cook is an associate professor in Economics at Bowling Green State University. She received her Masters in Economics from Vanderbilt University and her PhD in Economics from Purdue University. Her research interests are in health economics, econometrics, and industrial organization. She studies hospital reimbursement, health insurance, and health policy. Her recent work has focused on upcoding, the negative health effects of being uninsured, empirically modeling how hospitals and insurance companies divide surplus based on market characteristics, and theoretically modeling the health insurance market as a platform market. She has published in the Journal of Health Economics and American Journal of Public Health.

Education & Experience

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Economics, Purdue University, 2016

M.A. in Economics - Graduate Program in Economic Development, Vanderbilt University, 2011

B.A. in Mathematics, Grinnell College, 2003

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bowling Green State University, 2016 - Present

Areas of Expertise

Hospital Reimbursement
Health Insurance Finance
Health and Public Policy
Health Economics
Econometrics
Industrial Organization
Access to and Equity in Healthcare
Econometric Modeling

Research

Born, P., Cook, A., Sirmans, T., & Yang, C. (2022). Are health insurers in multiple lines of business less profitable? An examination of scope economies in health insurance. Journal of Risk and Insurance Review, 1– 28.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12408

Cook, A., Sirmans, T., & Wells, B. (2022) Does Legalization of Cannabis for Medicinal Use Impact Private Health Insurer Prescription Drug Expenditures? The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice.

Cook, Amanda C.; Bland, James; and Meisner, Andrew "Information cascades in the classroom: the relationship between in-class feedback and course performance," The Journal of Economics and Politics: (2021) Vol. 26 : Iss. 1, Article 3.
https://collected.jcu.edu/jep/vol26/iss1/3

Cook, Amanda C. & Alannah Reisling "Fraternity and sorority membership and risky sexual behavior", Journal of American College Health, (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2021.1883625

Cook, Amanda C and Amanda Stype. "Medicaid expansion and infant mortality: the (questionable) impact of the Affordable Care Act" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2020)
http://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2019-213666

Cook, Amanda, and Susan Averett. "Do Hospitals Respond to Changing Incentive Structures? Evidence from Medicare's 2007 DRG Restructuring." Journal of Health Economics (2020):102319.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102319

Cook, Amanda C. "Do the Uninsured Demand Less Care? Evidence from Maryland’s Hospitals" International Journal of Health Economics and Management (2020): 1-26.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-020-09280-4

Cook, Amanda C., Gregory Leung, and Rhet A. Smith. "Marijuana decriminalization, medical marijuana laws, and fatal traffic crashes in US cities, 2010–2017." American Journal of Public Health 110.3 (2020): 363-369.
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305484

Abboud, A., & Cook, A. C. (2019). Differential Rates of Medicaid Uptake for Hispanic English Speakers and Hispanic Spanish Speakers under the Affordable Care Act. Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1007/S41996-019-00036-Y

Amanda C. Cook & Donovan Beachy (2019) The Impact of Hurricane Matthew on School Attendance: An Analysis from Rural Haiti, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16010055

James R. Bland & Amanda C. Cook (2018) Random effects probit and logit: understanding predictions and marginal effects, Applied Economics Letters,
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1441498

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