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Positively aware? : conflicting expert reviews and demand for medical treatment
Balat, Jorge F.; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Qayyum, Shaiza - 2017
effects. Findings suggest that consumers demand information from experts according to the trade-offs they face when making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709785
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The effect of the patient protection and affordable care act medicaid expansions on financial wellbeing
Hu, Luojia; Kaestner, Robert; Mazumder, Bhashkar; … - 2016
We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on consumer, financial outcomes using data from a major credit reporting agency for a large, national sample of adults. We employ the synthetic control method to compare individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540115
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Lessons for Health Care Policy in the United States : Comparing Health Care Systems
Aspalter, Christian - 2012
This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113512
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Does public policy affect attitudes? : evidence from age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States
Yörük, Barış K. - 2022
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age-based health insurance policies in the United States as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255849
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Does public policy affect attitudes? : evidence from age-based health insurance coverage policies in the United States
Yörük, Barış K. - 2022
The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age-based health insurance policies in the United States as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013261891
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Taxes, cigarette consumption, and smoking intensity : reply
Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2012
, we provide new evidence on the importance of cotinine measures in explaining long-run smoking behavior and we investigate … ; public health ; compensatory behavior ; excise taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558968
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Malleability of Alcohol Consumption : Evidence from Migrants
Hinnosaar, Marit; Liu, Elaine M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How malleable is alcohol consumption? Specifically, how much is alcohol consumption driven by the current environment versus individual characteristics? To answer this question, we analyze changes in alcohol purchases when consumers move from one state to another in the United States. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334462
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Understanding the Demand-Side of an Illegal Market : Prohibition of Menthol Cigarettes
Kenkel, Donald Scott; Mathios, Alan D.; Phillips, Grace N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed to prohibit menthol cigarettes, which are smoked by almost 19 million people in the U.S. Illegal markets for menthol cigarettes could not only blunt the prohibition's intended consequence to reduce smoking but could also lead to unintended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486239
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Anticipatory anxiety and wishful thinking
Engelmann, Jan; Lebreton, Maël; Schwardmann, Peter; … - 2019
It is widely hypothesized that anxiety and worry about an uncertain future lead to the adoption of comforting beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026094
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"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message!" : unpacking the components of revenge
Molńar, András; Chaudhry, Shereen J.; Loewenstein, … - 2020
desire to affect beliefs often prioritized over distributive and retributive preferences? We test whether punishers derive … transgressor’s suffering), and cognitive states (the transgressor's beliefs about the cause of that suffering). In a novel …, preregistered experiment (N = 1,959) we demonstrate that consideration for transgressors' beliefs affects punishment decisions on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166019