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 …

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 …

positive relation between self-insurance and state taxes is detected, consistent with consumers opting to self-insure rather … demand is largely inelastic, e.g., automobile liability coverage, taxes do not affect self-insurance …

Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear … some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such … insurance company in effect serves as a retailer to homeowners of short positions in real estate futures markets or of put …

mechanisms? This paper shows that under perfect insurance, marginal utility should grow at the same rate for all consumers, and … correlated with it under perfect insurance, including illness, being fired from a job, etc …

religious organization are able to insure their consumption stream against income shocks and find strong insurance effects for … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for … alternative form of insurance for both whites and blacks though the mechanism by which religious organizations provide insurance …