health insurance (SHI): the size of the choice set and the salience of premium differences. We use variation in the choice … that simplifying choices could save retirees money and also improve the functioning of the health insurance market. …We investigate two determinants of the price sensitivity of health plan demand among retirees in the German social …

This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our … is comparable to an age effect on health of up to 31 years. Even 20 years after the peaceful German reunification, we …

value of health insurance. Second, insurance companies may have a strong incentive to reduce quality and to hide these …We analyze how customers with limited attention value and choose among health plans. We show how the model can … insurance is subadditive creating an incentive for providers to unbundle comprehensive plans. We discuss how these three effects …

, and newborn health. A corollary of our study is that, for cohorts born after 2002, regression discontinuity designs for … effects of neonatal care on child health based on birth weight classifications are invalid. …