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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology : the case of primary care clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621752
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The impact of defaults on technology adoption, and its underappreciation by policymakers
Bergman, Peter; Rogers, Todd - 2017
adoption significantly and improves student achievement. Our surveys show automatic enrollment is uncommon because its impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747457
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Mums go online : is the internet changing the demand for healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2020
corresponding medical benefits for patients. Heterogeneity analysis shows that mothers with low income and low education are those … argue that patient’s access to online information is changing the relationship between health care providers and patients. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383676
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Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393654
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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?
Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010
This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951612
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Do banks pass through credit expansions? : the marginal profitability of consumer lending during the Great Recession
Agarwal, Sumit; Chomsisengphet, Souphala; Mahoney, Neale; … - 2015
We examine the ability of policymakers to stimulate household borrowing and spending during the Great Recession by reducing banks' cost of funds. Using panel data on 8.5 million U.S. credit card accounts and 743 credit limit regression discontinuities, we estimate the marginal propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343066
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard" risk aversion (diminishing marginal utility for wealth) and probability distortions. We find that probability distortions - characterized by substantial overweighting of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621724
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Present-focused preferences and sin goods consumption at the extensive and intensive margins
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2020
This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206092
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Information frictions and adverse selection : policy interventions in health insurance markets
Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2015
A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392504
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Beliefs as a means of self-control? : evidence from a dynamic student survey
Bönisch, Felix; König, Tobias; … - 2024
We repeatedly elicit beliefs about the returns to study effort, in a large university course. A behavioral model of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and malleable beliefs predicts that the dynamics of beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that believed returns increase as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490754