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Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans
Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
companies and HMOs. In this paper, we study the role of current prescription drug use and health risks, related expectations …' choices respond to the incentives provided by their own health status and the market environment as predicted by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720044
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Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment
Slonim, Robert L; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We present evidence from a natural field experiment involving nearly 100,000 individuals on the effects of offering economic incentives for blood donations. Subjects who were offered economic rewards to donate blood were more likely to donate, and more so the higher the value of the rewards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372437
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Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care
Rebitzer, James B.; Rege, Mari; Shepard, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We investigate whether information technology can help physicians more efficiently acquire new knowledge in a clinical environment characterized by information overload. Our analysis makes use of data from a randomized trial as well as a theoretical model of the influence that information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829996
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Landeghem, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050188
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Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Many western industrialized countries face strong budgetary pressures due to the aging of the baby boom generations and the general trends toward earlier ages of retirement. We use the American PSID and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to explain differences in prevalence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710280
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Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question … such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback … fact that they don't work, non-working respondents may classify a given health problem as a more serious work limitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037680
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When Consumers Do Not Make an Active Decision: Dynamic Default Rules and their Equilibrium Effects
Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Dynamic defaults for recurring purchases determine what happens to consumers enrolled in a product or service who take no action at a decision point. Consumers may face automatic renewal, automatic switching, or non-purchase defaults. Privately optimal dynamic defaults depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822023
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Who Is (More) Rational?
Silverman, Dan; Choi, Syngjoo; Kariv, Shachar; Müller, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Revealed preference theory offers a criterion for decision-making quality: if decisions are high quality then there exists a utility function that the choices maximize. We conduct a large-scale field experiment that enables us to test subjects' choices for consistency with utility maximization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839445
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Barreca, Alan Irwin; Clay, Karen B.; Deschenes, Olivier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969229
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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: The Case of Cigarette Smoking
Grossman, Michael; Margolis, Jesse; Hockenberry, Jason; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Most evidence … the National Health Interview Survey to study one such behavior: smoking. We find that CABG patients are 12 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950726