Moral hazard and adverse selection create inefficiencies in private health insurance markets. The authors use claims … attempted to estimate moral hazard in private health insurance by assuming that individuals respond only to the spot price, end …, economic intuition suggests that the nonlinear budget constraints generated by health insurance plans make these assumptions …

large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … findings have the potential to provide a better understanding of the longer-run effectiveness and efficiency in the provision … ; primary care ; health information technology ; electronic medical records ; technology ; adoption ; diffusion ; urban and …

This paper seeks to understand the incentives of affiliated hospitals in choosing health information technology (IT … potentially important policy implications to improve the coordination of adopting health IT …

The contraction in health care consumption at the start of the pandemic provides insight into central economic … questions of waste and productivity in the U.S. health care system. Using linked mortality and Electronic Medical Records, we …-year mortality by 29.7 deaths per 10,000 among compliers, implying that a 10% increase in health care appointments reduces mortality …

's technological efficiency to help them update their belief about another product's technological efficiency within the same product …

consumer choice feature prominently in the design of public insurance markets, for instance in the United States in the recent …, an important practical question in the design phase of such a new program is how to deduce enrollment and plan selection … aggregate level. We then analyze predictions at the individual level, in particular how insurance demand varies with observable …

health spending simultaneously controlling for time effects (i.e. institutional changes and business cycles effects) and … estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group, especially for individuals older than 60 years. The …

In this paper we construct life-cycle profiles of U.S. health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure … Panel Survey (MEPS). We separate pure age effects on health expenditure from time effects (i.e. productivity effects … trend. Time and cohort effects introduce a significant estimation bias into predictions of health expenditures per age group …