large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … ; primary care ; health information technology ; electronic medical records ; technology ; adoption ; diffusion ; urban and …We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a …

adoption significantly and improves student achievement. Our surveys show automatic enrollment is uncommon because its impact …

Using a unique dataset on health club attendance from Quebec, we look at the relationship between actual and expected … renewal. Our results are consistent with a model of health club participation where agents underestimate the severity of their …

Several empirical studies provide evidence that their actual health state affects people's attitudes towards health and … medical care in hypothetical health states. In the tradition of behavioural economics this paper considers the actual health … state as a point of reference and builds a model for studying the implications of this phenomenon on health insurance and on …

We study the effects of the largest adverse health shock in modern medicine - the 1918 influenza pandemic - on … subsequent shifts in health-related attitudes and behavior and future-oriented policies. Our analysis builds upon self … influenza leads to a decline in societal support for public health measures at the aggregate level, mainly triggered by deceased …

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated … provision does not reduce bias in our survey-based belief measures. …

We study response behavior in surveys and propose a method to identify and improve the informativeness of survey … evidence. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that responses imperfectly reveal … process leads to biased inference from survey evidence and demonstrate how focusing on respondents with high signal precision …

, and health status, including addictive behavior. Most importantly, we show that dropping prudence and temperance from the …

exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption … initial drop with a net positive effect five years after adoption. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across …