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Heterogeneity in health insurance choice : an experimental investigation of consumer choice and feature preferences
Hermanns, Benedicta; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna - 2023
We investigate heterogeneity in patterns of preferences for health insurance features using health insurance choice data from a controlled laboratory experiment. Within the experiment, participants make consecutive insurance choices based on choice sets that vary in composition and size. We keep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305687
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Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Choice : An Experimental Investigation of Consumer Choice and Feature Preferences
Hermanns, Benedicta; Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna - 2023
We investigate heterogeneity in patterns of preferences for health insurance features using choice data from a controlled laboratory experiment. Participants make consecutive insurance choices based on choice sets that vary in composition and size. In addition, we implement a treatment that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356517
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How much do switching costs and local network effects contribute to consumer lock-in in mobile telephony?
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Sobolewski, Maciej - In: Telecommunications policy : the international journal … 40 (2016) 9, pp. 855-869
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Nudging households to take up health insurance : evidence from a randomized experiment in Burkina Faso
Bocoum, Fadima; Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Zongo, … - 2017
In this paper we analyze the impact of a randomized information package on the understanding and uptake of community based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure which is distributed to households through home visits, a video also presented in people's homes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647625
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Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso
Bocoum, Fadima - 2017
In this paper we analyze the impact of a randomized information package on the understanding and uptake of community based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure which is distributed to households through home visits, a video also presented in people's homes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957013
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2016 - October 2014 (revised June 2016)
the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician, including observability of … consult more often and physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment … compared to the baseline and patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490343
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Medical insurance and free choice of physician shape patient overtreatment : a laboratory experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and … patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is found to partially offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413597
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Medical Insurance and Free Choice of Physician Shape Patient Overtreatment : A Laboratory Experiment
Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Spitzer, Florian; … - 2014
stylized way, we study the effects of medical insurance and competition in the guise of free choice of physician. Medical … physicians overtreat more often than in the baseline condition. Competition decreases overtreatment compared to the baseline and … patients therefore consult more often. When the two institutions are combined, competition is found to partially offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141644
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Default vs. Active Choices : An Experiment on Electricity Tariff Switching
Atasoy, Ayse Tugba - 2020
In distinct decision environments,consumers often fail to financially optimize their decisions. In liberalized electricity markets, consumers frequently do not optimize their electricity choices and stick with the default providers instead, despite the ability to choose among an increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827006
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How do consumers choose health insurance? : an experiment on heterogeneity in attribute tastes and risk preferences
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Kokot, Johanna; Vomhof, Markus; … - 2014
Recent health policy reforms try to increase consumer choice. We use a laboratory experiment to analyze consumers’ tastes in typical contract attributes of health insurances and to investigate their relationship with individual risk preferences. First, subjects make consecutive insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461931