Rationale: With the recent increases in medical spending, employers have changed health care benefits to decrease health insurance costs by implementing increased cost sharing and decreasing the amount of covered services. It is unclear what the effect of changing plan design has on health care...

Health preference research (HPR) is the subfield of health economics dedicated to understanding the value of health and health-related objects using observational or experimental methods. In a discrete choice experiment (DCE), the utility of objects in a choice set may differ systematically...

In a recent study, it was demonstrated that the maximum simulated likelihood (MSL) estimator produces significant biases when applied to the bivariate normal and bivariate Poisson-lognormal models. The study's conclusion suggests that similar biases could be present in other models generated by...