LSE creators

Number of items: 47.
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
  • Zigante, Valentina, Costa-Font, Joan, Cooper, Zack (2012). Choice in health care: drivers and consequences. In McGuire, Alistair, Costa-Font, Joan (Eds.), The Lse Companion To Health Policy (pp. 79-93). Edward Elgar.
    • Centre for Economic Performance
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Skellern, Matthew (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.002
  • Cooper, Zack, Kowalski, Amanda, Neff Powell, Eleanor, Wu, Jennifer (2017). Politics, hospital behaviour and health care spending. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1523). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Scott Morton, Fiona, Shekita, Nathan (2017). Surprise! Out-of-network billing for emergency care in the United States. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1524). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Skellern, Matthew (2016). Does competition from private surgical centres improve public hospitals’ performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service. (CEP Discussion Paper 1434). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart, Gaynor, Martin, Van Reenen, John (2015). The price ain’t right? hospital prices and healthspending on the privately insured. (CEP Discussion Paper 1395). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Cooper, Zack (2012). President Obama and Governor Romney have presented two radically different visions of healthcare reform.
  • Cooper, Zack (2012). Healthcare reform: the US policy debate. (US Election Analysis NO. 3 CEPUSA003). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Center of Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. (CEPDP 1125). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. (CEP discussion papers 988). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Health: higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase. (CEP Election Analysis CEPEA009). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Center of Economic Performance.
    • Economics
  • Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart, Gray, Charles, Gaynor, Martin, Van Reenen, John (2019). Variation in health spending growth for the privately insured from 2007 to 2014. Health Affairs, 38(2), 230-236. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05245
  • Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart V, Gaynor, Martin, Van Reenen, John (2019). The price ain’t right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(1), 51-107. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy020 picture_as_pdf
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
    • Geography and Environment
  • Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart V, Gaynor, Martin, Van Reenen, John (2019). The price ain’t right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(1), 51-107. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy020 picture_as_pdf
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Skellern, Matthew (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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2018.08.002
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. (CEPDP 1125). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2011). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. The Economic Journal, 121(554), F228-F260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02449.x
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. (CEP discussion papers 988). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP0041). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. (LSE Health working papers 16/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • LSE
  • Cooper, Zack, Craig, Stuart, Gaynor, Martin, Harish, Nir J, Krumholz, Harlan M, Van Reenen, John (2019). Hospital prices grew substantially faster than physician prices for hospital-based care in 2007-14. Health Affairs, 38(2), 184 - 189. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05424
    • LSE Health
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. (CEPDP 1125). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2011). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. The Economic Journal, 121(554), F228-F260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02449.x
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
  • Charlesworth, Anita, Cooper, Zack (2011). Making competition work in the English NHS: the case for maintaining regulated prices. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 16(4), 193-194. https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2011.011038
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). Hospital competition is good for patients, and for efficiency.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). Does mandated insurance mean more paternalistic public health policy? Hopefully not.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. (CEP discussion papers 988). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). The choice is simple: slow health care spending or raise taxes.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). Hard choices: the general election and the NHS.
  • McGuire, Alistair, Cooper, Zack (2010). LSE centre for economic performance: health – higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). Health care reform: we’ve really only just begun.
  • Cooper, Zack, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Health: higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase. (CEP Election Analysis CEPEA009). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Center of Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). Complexity in health care can’t be a vice.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). What should be achieved at the health care summit. The Huffington Post, Februa,
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). The challenge of monopolies in U.S. health care — England may help illustrate the solution.
  • Cooper, Zack (2010). The real losers last night in Massachusetts were the uninsured. The Huffington Post, Januar,
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. (LSE Health working papers 16/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). The public option sideshow. The Huffington Post, Decemb,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). A health insurance mandate and corporate monopoly. The Huffington Post, Octobe,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Message to the Senate Finance Committee: more dynamism, less politicking.
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Health care reform needs more innovating and less politicking. The Huffington Post, Septem,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Barack Obama: president of policy ends, not ideological means. The Huffington Post, Septem,
  • Cooper, Zack, Le Grand, Julian (2009). The NHS can cost less and still care. Guardian, 4 Sept,
  • Cooper, Zachary N., McGuire, Alistair, Jones, S., Le Grand, Julian (2009). Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. British Medical Journal, 339(b3264). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3264
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Incentives, incentives, incentives (and adverse selection).
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Want to lower the healthcare price tag?: the insurance debate is just the beginning. The Huffington Post, August,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Would Ted Kennedy get care in England? ABC News, August,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). English healthcare in the US reform debate: setting the record straight. The Huffington Post, August,
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). This NHS row is paralysing progress. Guardian, (12 Aug),
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Incentives, incentives, incentives (and risk selection).
  • Cooper, Zack (2009). Barriers, roadblocks, and opportunities: a pathway to health care reform in the United States.
  • Cooper, Z, Nelson, R M, Ross, L F (2006). Informed consent for genetic research involving pleiotropic genes: an empirical study of ApoE research. IRB, 28(5), 1-11.
  • Cooper, Zachary N., Nelson, Robert M., Friedman Ross, Lainie (2004). Certificates of confidentiality in research: rationale and usage. Genetic Testing, 8(2), 214-220. https://doi.org/10.1089/gte.2004.8.214
    • Social Policy
  • Le Grand, Julian, Cooper, Zack (2013). Framing health reform. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 8(02), 251-257. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133113000078
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. (CEPDP 1125). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Zigante, Valentina, Costa-Font, Joan, Cooper, Zack (2012). Choice in health care: drivers and consequences. In McGuire, Alistair, Costa-Font, Joan (Eds.), The Lse Companion To Health Policy (pp. 79-93). Edward Elgar.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2011). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. The Economic Journal, 121(554), F228-F260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02449.x
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. (CEP discussion papers 988). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • McGuire, Alistair, Cooper, Zack (2010). LSE centre for economic performance: health – higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase.
  • Cooper, Zack, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Health: higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase. (CEP Election Analysis CEPEA009). The London School of Economics and Political Science, Center of Economic Performance.
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. (LSE Health working papers 16/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Cooper, Zack, Le Grand, Julian (2009). The NHS can cost less and still care. Guardian, 4 Sept,
  • Cooper, Zachary N., McGuire, Alistair, Jones, S., Le Grand, Julian (2009). Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. British Medical Journal, 339(b3264). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3264
    • Urban and Spatial Programme
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. (CEPDP 1125). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Bloom, Nicholas, Cooper, Zack, Gaynor, Martin, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair, Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo, Propper, Carol, Van Reenen, John, Seiler, Stephan (2011). In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378(9809), 2064-2065. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61708-X
  • Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. (SERC Discussion Papers SERCDP0041). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science.