Measuring consumer responsiveness to medical care prices is a central issue in health
economics and a key ingredient in the optimal design and regulation of health insurance …

We find that daily air pollution levels have a significant effect on the decision to purchase or
cancel health insurance in a manner inconsistent with rational choice theory. A one standard …

Consideration set models generalize discrete-choice models by relaxing the assumption
that consumers consider all available options. Determining which options were considered …

We study the demand response to nonlinear price schedules using data on insurance
contracts and prescription drug purchases in Medicare Part D. We exploit the kink in …

I take advantage of regulatory and pricing dynamics in Medicare Part D to explore
interactions among adverse selection, inertia, and regulation. I first document novel …

We study the design of provider incentives in the post‐acute care setting—a high‐stakes but
under‐studied segment of the healthcare system. We focus on long‐term care hospitals …

We explore how private drug plans set cost sharing in the context of Medicare Part D. While
publicly provided drug coverage typically involves uniform cost sharing across drugs, we …

We measure the impact of direct-to-consumer television advertising (DTCA) by drug
manufacturers. Our identification strategy exploits shocks to local advertising markets …

We study the welfare effects of offering choice over coverage levels—“vertical choice”—in
regulated health insurance markets. We emphasize that heterogeneity in efficient coverage …

Empirical research often cites observed choice responses to variation that shifts expected
discounted future utilities, but not current utilities, as an intuitive source of information on …