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Do Insurers Risk-Select Against Each Other? Evidence from Medicaid and Implications for Health Reform

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Meckel, Katherine; Rossin-Slater, Maya - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Increasingly in U.S. public insurance programs, the state finances and regulates competing, capitated private health … health disparities and corresponding cost differences between blacks and Hispanics (who make up the large majority of …-Hispanic infant health disparities widen under MMC (e.g., the black-Hispanic mortality gap grows by 42 percent) and black mothers' pre …

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Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets

Gruber, Jonathan; Abaluck, Jason; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Medicare Part D enrollees face a complicated decision problem: they must dynamically choose prescription drug consumption in each period given difficult- to-find prices and a non-linear budget set. We use Medicare Part D claims data from 2006-2009 to estimate a flexible model of consumption that...

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Health Insurance for "Humans": Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare

Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

administrative data on health plan choices and claims with unique survey data on consumer information and other typically unobserved …

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Medicaid and the Elderly

De Nardi, Mariacristina; French, Eric; Jones, John Bailey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We describe the Medicaid eligibility rules for the elderly. Medicaid is administered jointly by the Federal and state governments, and each state has significant flexibility on the details of the implementation. We document the features common to all states, but we also highlight the most...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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Local Public Good Provision: Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility

Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis; Romer, Thomas; Sieg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality...

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Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...

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Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Kantor, Shawn; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

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Eminent Domain Versus Government Purchase of Land Given Imperpect Information About Owners' Valuation

Shavell, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Governments employ two basic policies for acquiring land: taking it through exercise of their power of eminent domain; and purchasing it. The social desirability of these two policies is compared in a model in which the government's information about landowners' valuations is imperfect. Under...

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Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition

Romano, Richard Evans; Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We examine the welfare effects of provision of local public goods in an empirically relevant setting using a multi-community model with mobile and heterogeneous households, and with flexible housing supplies. We characterize the first-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with...

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