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Harju, Jarkko; Verho, J - 2023

We study the moral hazard effects of the drug copayment threshold in Finland using detailed prescription drug purchase … data. The analysis reveals that the average drug costs increase discontinuously by 17% at the threshold above which out …-of-pocket drug costs decrease substantially. Our results suggest an average price elasticity of -0.17, which indicates evident moral …

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Vaccination Lottery

Kim, Duk Gyoo - 2021

Ohio announced a Vax-a-Million Lottery in May 2021 to encourage people vaccinated. If people may avoid vaccination because (1) they worry about rare but critical side effects or (2) they want to free ride on herd immunity, the vaccination lottery may work better or worse than a lump-sum transfer...

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Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccinations : Vaccine Administration and Delivery Efficiency in the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021

This paper adds some formal research to the success of ongoing efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US states and place the formal analysis in the context...

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The Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Family Structure and Public Program Participation Among Young Adults

Chatterji, Pinka - 2018

We use difference-in-difference methods and data from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation to test whether the ACA dependent care provision is associated with family structure and public program participation among young adults. Findings indicate that implementation of the...

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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Military Participation Among Young Adults

Chatterji, Pinka - 2018

In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults’ propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults...

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The Affordable Care Act and the Market for Higher Education

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2019

Through changing the connection between insurance and employment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected people's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid...

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Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan's Autism Insurance Mandate

Acton, Riley K. - 2019

Social programs and mandates are usually studied in isolation, but interaction effects could create spillovers to other public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the context of state-mandated private therapy...

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Plugging Gaps in Payment Systems : Evidence from the Take-Up of New Medicare Billing Codes

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Leganza, Jonathan M.; Masucci, Alex - 2021

Over the last decade, the U.S. Medicare program has added new billing codes to enhance the financial rewards for Chronic Care Management and Transitional Care Management. We show that the take-up of these new billing codes is gradual and exhibits substantial variations across markets and...

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Coinsurance vs. Copayments : Reimbursement Rules for a Monopolistic Medical Product with Competitive Health Insurers

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - 2021

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...

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Medicare and the Rise of American Medical Patenting : The Economics of User-Driven Innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey P.; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of “innovating-bydoing,” whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners’ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory researchand...

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