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A vibrant literature has emerged that suggests willingness to pay and willingness to accept measures of value are quite different for inexperienced consumers but that value differences erode with market experience. One potential shortcoming of this literature is that market experience is...
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This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...
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We measure provider coverage networks for plans on the Massachusetts health insurance exchange using a two measures …
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This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment … responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that … respondents were twice asked during the survey to evaluate their health on a five-point scale, using two different sets of …
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. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and …
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-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to quantify biases that affect consumers of addictive goods: present-biased preferences, naïve beliefs regarding present bias, and projection-biased beliefs over future abstinence. These biases reflect departures from the neoclassical benchmark needed to...
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Most governments in the world including the United States prohibit prostitution. Given these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District...
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We utilize panel data from the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the impact of retirement on physical and … mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization. Because poor health can induce retirement, we instrument for … test. We find strong evidence that retirement improves both health and life satisfaction. While the impact on life …
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health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes … using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production …
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