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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...
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Age and choice in health insurance : evidence from Switzerland
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2007 - Revised version
Elements of regulation inherent in most social health insurance systems are a uniform package of benefits and uniform cost sharing. Both elements risk to burden the population with a welfare loss if preferences differ. This suggests introducing more contracted choice; however, it is widely...
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Cost sharing in health insurance : an instrument for risk selection?
Becker, Karolin (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2005
Health insurance is potentially subject to risk selection, i.e. adverse selection on the part of consumers and cream skimming on the part of insurers. Adverse selection models predict that competitive health insurers can eschew high-risk individuals by offering contracts with low deductibles or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003216009
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Loss Aversion, Reference Dependence and Diminishing Sensitivity in Choice Experiments
Scott, Anthony - 2016
In the discrete choice experiment literature, it has been argued that the choice sets from which respondents choose should include an unforced choice because this is more realistic and accounts for status quo bias. However, we propose a much stronger set of arguments for preferring to use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013003754
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Heterogeneity in general practitioners' preferences for quality improvement programs : a choice experiment and policy simulation in France
Ammi, Mehdi; Peyron, Christine - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 44, pp. 1-11
Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586673
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Attribute development and level selection for a discrete choice experiment to elicit the preferences of health care providers for capitation payment mechanism in Kenya
Obadha, Melvin; Barasa, Edwine; Kazungu, Jacob; Abiiro, … - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 30, pp. 1-19
capitation payment mechanism in Kenya. Methodology: We used a four-stage process proposed by Helter and Boehler to conduct and … mechanisms while the qualitative study uncovered 10 capitation attributes. Then, inappropriate attributes were removed using … attributes were established for the DCE, namely, payment schedule, timeliness of payments, capitation rate per individual per …
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One step at a time: do threshold patterns matter in public good provision?
Asher, Sam; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Nikolov, Plamen; Ye, Maoliang - 2009
There is a substantial literature examining coordination in public goods games. We conducted an experiment to explore how varying patterns of thresholds affect the willingness of subjects to contribute to a public good. We had subjects play a multiperiod game where each subject was allocated an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789634
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Preference reversals and disparities between willingness to pay and willingness to accept in repeated markets
Loomes, Graham; Starmer, Chris; Sugden, Robert - 2009
Previous studies suggest that two otherwise robust 'anomalies' - preference reversals and disparities between buying and selling valuations - are eroded when respondents participate in repeated markets. We report an experiment which investigates whether this is true when factors neglected in...
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Common consequence effects with pricing data
Schmidt, Ulrich; Trautmann, Stefan T. - 2010
This paper presents an experimental study analyzing common consequence effects with binary choice, willingness-to-pay (WTP), and willingness-to-accept (WTA). Consistent with previous research we do not find clearcut evidence of fanning out in the absence of certainty effects. Violation rates of...
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Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices
Gächter, Simon; Johnson, Eric J.; Herrmann, Andreas; … - 2007
Loss aversion can occur in riskless and risky choices. Yet, there is no evidence whether people who are loss averse in riskless choices are also loss averse in risky choices. We measure individual-level loss aversion in riskless choices in an endowment effect experiment by eliciting both WTA and...
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