We estimate a Bayesian learning model in order to assess the value of health plan performance information and the … natural experiment in which health plan performance information for HMOs was released to employees of a Fortune 50 company for … effect on health plan choices, causing 3.1% of employees to switch health plans. Although consumers were willing to pay an …

section describes the basics of CE analysis and how it can be applied to aid decisions about the allocation of health … carrying out CE analysis, such as which costs to include, whose perspective matters in the analysis, and how health outcomes … analysis to make health policy at the societal or group level …

The durability of health care treatment, the substantial technical change in health care treatment, and the prevalence … of third-party payment interact to create substantial difficulty in measuring the price and output of health care. This … paper provides a framework for analyzing the demand for health care taking into account these difficulties. It then suggests …

public health clinics. We exploit an exogenous reduction in public health clinic capacity to quantify nurses' trade …

Evidence of regional variation in health care utilization has been well-documented over the past 40 years. Yet … matters for both theory and policy. In this article, we provide new evidence as to the cause of geographic variation in health … care utilization. We do so by examining changes in health care use by the near-elderly as they transition from being …

Measuring physician quality is fundamental to understanding healthcare productivity, yet patient sorting can confound …