In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be
given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides an opportunity to gauge the …

We use employee-level panel data from a single firm to explore the possibility that
individuals may select insurance coverage in part based on their anticipated behavioral …

This paper studies regulated health insurance markets known as exchanges, motivated by
the increasingly important role they play in both public and private insurance provision. We …

We survey the literature on social insurance, focusing on recent work that has connected
theory to evidence to make quantitative statements about welfare and optimal policy. Our …

We study how an improvement in market transparency affects seller exit and continuing
sellers' behavior in a market setting that involves informational asymmetries. The …

In many countries large parts of the population do not have access to health insurance. Peru
has made an effort to change this in the early 2000s. The institutional setup gives rise to the …

This paper brings new evidence on the efficacy of government “nudges” in markets where
profitmaximizing firms sell complex products to consumers. We use administrative data from …

Objectives. We examined the mental health effects of the Great Recession of 2008 to 2009
on workers who remained continuously employed and insured. Methods. We examined …

While health care policies are frequently signed into law well before they are implemented,
such lags are ignored in most empirical work. This paper demonstrates the importance of …

This paper examines how advertising impacts competition and equilibrium prices in the
context of a privatized pension market. We use detailed administrative data on fund …