Avraham, Ronen; Dafny, Leemore S.; Schanzenbach, Max M. - In: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 28 (2012) 4, pp. 657-686
We evaluate the effect of tort reform on employer-sponsored health insurance premiums by exploiting state-level variation in the timing of reforms. Using a dataset of health plans representing over 10 million Americans annually between 1998 and 2006, we find that the most common set of tort...