This study determines whether long-sleep (≥ 9 hours per night) is causally related to lower self-rated health. Lewbel instrumental variable estimation is used with data on adults from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (n = 26,607).Lewbel instrumental variable estimation enables the...

Chronic pain is an issue that forensic economists are often called upon to value. However, some methods of valuing chronic pain are difficult for judges and juries to understand. One approach that is relatively easy for judges and juries to grasp is the subjective well-being valuation method,...

As health insurance benefit designs become more innovative, fully understanding provider responses to consumer cost-sharing is important. This paper examines the effect of reference pricing, an insurance program that increases consumer cost sharing when consumers choose high-priced providers. We...

We investigate the effects of management's strategic disclosure choices when a company is faced with the prospect of a negative media mention. Crisis communications experts commonly advise managers to get out ahead of the media to increase management's credibility. We use an experiment to...