David Powell

Institution: RAND

Primary Field: Health (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/davidpowell/

First Publication: 2012

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	11.71	11.77	4.37	0.00	27.85	99%
Last 10 Years	15.74	21.19	8.24	0.50	45.68	99%
All Time	15.74	27.25	8.24	0.50	51.73	98%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 24

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 26.82

Publications (24)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Regulating quasi-legal markets: Evidence from pain management clinic laws	Journal of Public Economics	A	4
2025	Understanding the demographics of the opioid overdose death crisis	Journal of Population Economics	B	1
2024	Price Sensitivity and Information Barriers to the Take-up of Naloxone	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	2
2024	Investigating the complexity of naloxone distribution: Which policies matter for pharmacies and potential recipients	Journal of Health Economics	B	6
2023	Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	4
2023	The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and the Implications for the Structure of Wages	American Economic Review	S	5
2023	The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force, and Productivity	American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics	A	3
2022	Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?	Journal of Public Economics	A	3
2022	Origins of the Opioid Crisis and its Enduring Impacts	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	1
2022	Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Comparative Case Studies: Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?	Journal of Business & Economic Statistics	A	1
2021	Disentangling moral hazard and adverse selection in private health insurance	Journal of Econometrics	A	2
2021	The Evolving Consequences of OxyContin Reformulation on Drug Overdoses	American Journal of Health Economics	B	2
2021	Is the rise in illicit opioids affecting labor supply and disability claiming rates?	Journal of Health Economics	B	2
2020	How increasing medical access to opioids contributes to the opioid epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D	Journal of Health Economics	B	3
2020	Estimating Intensive and Extensive Tax Responsiveness	Economic Inquiry	C	2
2020	Quantile Treatment Effects in the Presence of Covariates	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	1
2020	Does Labor Supply Respond to Transitory Income? Evidence from the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008	Journal of Labor Economics	A	1
2019	The Distortionary Effects of the Health Insurance Tax Exclusion	American Journal of Health Economics	B	1
2018	Do medical marijuana laws reduce addictions and deaths related to pain killers?	Journal of Health Economics	B	3
2018	Supply-Side Drug Policy in the Presence of Substitutes: Evidence from the Introduction of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	3
2018	Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Workers' Compensation Reforms	American Economic Review	S	2
2017	The Effect of the 2009 Influenza Pandemic on Absence from Work	Health Economics	B	4
2012	Income Taxes, Compensating Differentials, and Occupational Choice: How Taxes Distort the Wage-Amenity Decision	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy	A	2
2012	Compensating Differentials and Income Taxes: Are the Wages of Dangerous Jobs More Responsive to Tax Changes than the Wages of Safe Jobs?	Journal of Human Resources	A	1