There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

Recent research has documented a link between consumer risk preferences over health and the willingness to pay (WTP …) for medical technologies. However, the absence of empirical health risk preference estimates so far limits the … individual risk preference parameters over health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that shed light on health risk attitudes and …

expressing health care-seeking behavior as a function of economic and behavioral fundamentals and highlighting the role of trust …. We report several findings. First, we document a strong association between higher levels of trust in the health care … scenarios, from routine check-ups to vaccinations. Second, the impact of trust on health care utilization is similar in …

counties. Nonetheless, there are no consistent effects of obstetric unit closure on maternal and infant health in the full … is a more consistent pattern of negative effects of closure on infant health. Importantly, the adoption of scope … implications for narrowing racial/ethnic disparities in health in response to obstetric unit closures …

Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles … built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we … find that a small hassle - a requirement to actively select a health plan to enroll - reduces take-up by 33%, a major …

(PBMs) and health insurers in recent years. Using a unique dataset on insurer-PBM contracts, we document increasing vertical … due to input and customer foreclosure on the one hand and improved efficiency on the other. We find premium increases …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers … would be replaced by pre-treatment insurance premia to health ministries. Second, increased patient choice and carefully …

correcting for selection bias and keeping the next-best alternatives as measured at the time of application fixed. We find that …

Insurance product choice is a central feature of health insurance markets in the United States, yet there is ongoing … document large choice inconsistencies, with the typical employee foregoing savings of more than $600 in their insurance plan …

Evidence on insurers' behavior in environments with both risk selection and market power is largely missing. We fill … changes in selection. Our strategy exploits a 2012 reform allowing Medicare enrollees to switch to 5-star contracts at anytime …. This policy increased enrollment into 5-star contracts, but without risk selection worsening. Our findings show that this …