Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately … the optimum subsidy scheme that can insure a given take-up for a new weather insurance for rice producers. We build a … model that includes the forces that are known to be determinants of insurance demand, provide reduced form confirmation of …

hospital-insurer bargaining over premiums and reimbursements, household demand for insurance, and individual demand for …

of one policy response: linking subsidies to prices, to target a given post-subsidy premium. We show that these price …

and benefit package. Medicare provides a subsidy, based on a "benchmark payment rate", for each Medicare beneficiary a … plan enrolls. We investigate how this subsidy, the primary policy lever in the market, affects the equilibrium premiums and … subsidy dollars and can account for the empirical results. More specifically, institutional features make it difficult for …

approximately $140 million or 7.5 percent of current coverage. As expected, tax effects vary with the elasticity of demand. When … demand is largely inelastic, e.g., automobile liability coverage, taxes do not affect self-insurance …

data, I then show that this type of demand heterogeneity is empirically relevant in a consumer health plan setting. Younger … and older consumers and men and women reveal strikingly different demand for health insurance, conditional on their …

substantial premium subsidy from the government? We find that providing access to formal insurance significantly increases farmers …

We study the coverage impacts of a 65-percent health insurance premium subsidy which targeted employer-insured workers … American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) COBRA subsidy and contributes to a better understanding of consumer responses to … the subsidy is associated with a substantial increase in own-name employer coverage among the targeted group. We estimate …