Kreider, Brent and Sean Nicholson, "Health Insurance and the Homeless," Health Economics 1997; 6(1): 31-41.
Pauly, Mark V. and Sean Nicholson, "The Managed Care Backlash: Adverse Consequences of Adverse Selection," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 1999; 24(5): 921-930.
Nicholson, Sean, Mark V. Pauly, Lawton R. Burns, Agnieshka Baumritter, and David A. Asch, "Measuring Community Benefits Provided by For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals," Health Affairs 2000; November/December: 168-177.
Nicholson, Sean and David Song, "The Incentive Effects of the Medicare Indirect Medical Education Policy," Journal of Health Economics 2001; 20(6): 909-933.
Nicholson, Sean, "Physician Specialty Choice Under Uncertainty." Journal of Labor Economics 2002; 20(4): 816-847.
Pauly, Mark V., Sean Nicholson, Judy Xu, Dan Polsky, Patricia Danzon, James F. Murray, and Marc L. Berger, "A New General Model of the Impact of Absenteeism on Employers and Employees," Health Economics 2002; 11(3): 221-231.
Nicholson, Sean, "Medicare Hospital Subsidies: Money in Search of Purpose." Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, May 2002.
Polsky, Daniel, and Sean Nicholson, "Why are Managed Care Plans Less Expensive: Risk Selection, Utilization, or Reimbursement?" Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming.
Murray, James F., Sean Nicholson, Mark Pauly, and Marc Berger, 2002, "Investing in Health to Boost Employee Productivity: The Employer's Perspective," in Ron Kessler, editor, Health and Work Productivity: Emerging Issues in Research and Policy, forthcoming.
Sean Nicholson, Patricia M. Danzon, and Jeffrey McCullough, "Biotech-Pharmaceutical Alliances as a Signal of Asset and Firm Quality." NBER Working Paper 9007. Forthcoming at Journal of Business.
Papers Under Review
Nicholson, Sean, "How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income? Accuracy, Bias, and Implications for Career Decisions." Under 3rd review at Journal of Human Resources.
Arcidiacono, Peter and Sean Nicholson, "Peer Effects in Medical School." NBER Working Paper 9025. Under 2nd review at Journal of Public Economics.
Nicholson, Sean and Nicholas S. Souleles, "Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice." NBER Working Paper 8536. Revising for 2nd review at Journal of Labor Economics.
Danzon, Patricia M., Sean Nicholson, and Nuno Pereira, "Productivity in Biotech-Pharmaceutical R&D: The Role of Experience and Alliances." NBER Working Paper 9615. Revising for 2nd review at Journal of Health Economics.
Nicholson, Sean, "Barriers to Entering Medical Specialties." NBER Working Paper 9649. Revising for 2nd review at Journal of Health Economics.
Nicholson, Sean, Kate Bundorf, Rebecca Stein, and Daniel Polsky, "The Magnitude and Nature of Risk Selection in Employer-Sponsored Health Plans." NBER Working Paper 9937. Revising for 2nd review at Health Services Research.
Nicholson, Sean and Nicholas S. Souleles, "Physician Income Prediction Errors: Sources and Implications for Behavior." NBER Working Paper 8907.
Burns, Lawton, R., Gilbert Gimm, and Sean Nicholson, “The Financial Performance of Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs).”
Working Papers
Nicholson, Sean, and Andrew Epstein, "Physician Learning and Best Practice Adoption: An Application to Cesarean Sections."
Danzon, Patricia M., Andrew Epstein, and Sean Nicholson, "Mergers and Acquisitions in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries."