Mindi Dickstein

About

Mindi Dickstein is an award-winning writer of plays and musicals, best known as the lyricist for Broadway's LITTLE WOMEN, which is licensed by MTI and has an original Broadway cast album released by Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom Records. Her work continues to be produced across the US, Canada, and internationally, including recent productions in Italy, London, and Tokyo. Her current projects include writing lyrics for THE PILOT AND THE LITTLE PRINCE, which premieres in Katowice, Poland in October 2024, as well as creating the book and lyrics for MAIDEN VOYAGE, and writing lyrics for WITNESSES, which received the 2022 San Diego Critics award for Best Production. She also contributed lyrics for BENNY & JOON, based on the MGM film, which had its world premiere at The Old Globe and subsequent productions at Paper Mill Playhouse and other venues. Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed by notable organizations such as Disney, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, and the ASCAP Workshop. Her songs have been performed at prestigious venues including The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and 54 Below. She holds an MFA from GMTWP, where she was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow, and a BFA from NYU’s Department of Undergraduate Drama.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Economics
• Economic growth
• Artificial Intelligence
• Business
• Public economics
• Microeconomics
• Ecology
• Biology
• Actuarial science

Selected publications

• What do Exporters Know?*

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2018-07-04 · 65 citations

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  Much of the variation in international trade volume is driven by firms’ extensive margin decisions of whether to participate in export markets. We evaluate how the information potential exporters possess influences their decisions. We estimate a model of export participation in which firms weigh the fixed costs of exporting against the forecasted profits from serving a foreign market. We adopt a moment inequality approach, placing weak assumptions on firms’ expectations. The framework allows us…

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• Efficient Provision of Experience Goods: Evidence from Antidepressant Choice

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2018-01-01 · 37 citations

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  In markets for experience goods, consumers learn about the quality of available products through experimentation. In their decisions, they balance the desire to choose the good with the largest expected value against the incentive to try lesser-known but potentially superior options. I develop a dynamic framework for analyzing demand that interacts pricing and promotion with this learning process, and accommodates settings in which agents search over large choice sets. I employ this approach to…

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• Market Segmentation and Competition in Health Insurance

  2021 · 11 citations

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  In the United States, households obtain health insurance through distinct market segments. To explore the economics of this segmentation, we consider the effects of pooling coverage provided through small employers and through the individual marketplace. We model households' demand for insurance coverage and health care, along with insurers' price-setting, to predict equilibrium choices, premiums, and health spending. Applying our model to data from Oregon, we find that pooling can both mitigate…

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• Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2018-01-01 · 7 citations

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  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established health insurance marketplaces where consumers can buy individual coverage. Leveraging novel credit card and bank account micro-data, we identify new enrollees in the California marketplace and measure their health spending and premium payments. Following enrollment, we observe dramatic spikes in individuals' health care consumption. We also document widespread attrition, with more than half of all new enrollees dropping coverage before the end of the pla…

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• Industry Input in Policymaking: Evidence from Medicare

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2018-02-01 · 7 citations

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  In setting prices for physician services, Medicare solicits input from a committee that evaluates proposals from industry. We investigate whether this arrangement leads to prices biased toward the interests of committee members. We find that increasing a measure of affiliation between the committee and proposers by one standard deviation increases prices by 10%, demonstrating a pathway for regulatory capture. We then evaluate the effect of affiliation on the quality of information used in price-…

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Frequent coauthors

• Kate Ho

  53 shared

• Nathaniel Mark

  United States Department of Justice

  51 shared

• Eduardo Morales

  Princeton University

  15 shared

• David C. Chan

  Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

  6 shared

• Pietro Tebaldi

  Columbia University

  4 shared

• Allen Dobson

  4 shared

• Petra Persson

  4 shared

• William Gold

  New York Proton Center

  4 shared

Awards & honors

• San Diego Critics award for Best Production (2022)
• Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Music…

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