We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In … the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost …-sharing for health services consumption. Since the probability of exemption changes discontinuously at age 65, we use a Fuzzy RDD …

We estimate the causal effect of having full health insurance on health care expenditures. We take advantage of a … expenses. Using panel data and a non-linear difference-in-differences strategy, we find a demand elasticity of about -0 …

, advanced imaging, and surgeries). Using a differences-in-differences design coupled with granular, administrative health …

levels of health care spending, controlling for past health care use. We estimate the demand elasticity of total health care …

insurance. Across a range of health measures, we estimate no significant impacts on health. …

Health insurance premiums often do not reflect individual health risks, implying redistribution from individuals with … low health risks to individuals with high health risks. This paper studies whether more cost-sharing leads to less … data from a Dutch health insurer. We use the model to simulate the effects of a host of counterfactual policies. The policy …

We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a … deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design: deductible … large Dutch health insurer we find that individuals are forward-looking. Changing dynamic incentives by increasing the …

only absence behavior, but also workers' subsequent health. To inform our empirical analysis we propose a simple model …, where workers' absence decision is taken conditional on the sharing rule, health, and a dismissal probability. Our empirical …-induced variation in sick leave has a significant effect on subsequent health (care cost). The average worker in our sample is in the …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …