We examine the health plan choices that 23,894 employees at a US firm made from a large
menu of options that differed only in financial cost-sharing and premium. These decisions …

Psychologists and economists have examined the effect of cognitive load in a variety of
situations from risk taking to snack choice. We review previous experiments that have …

This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males.
We survey the existing experimental literature, finding that significance and magnitude of …

Objective This systematic review synthesizes what is known about the effective presentation
of health care performance information for consumer decision making. Methods Six …

We offer a structured literature survey of experimental studies involving insurance demand
choices and their experimental methodology. With this, we aim to fulfill two goals. First, we …

Understanding how physicians respond to incentives from payment schemes is a central
concern in health economics research. We introduce a controlled laboratory experiment to …

To explore whether schools' causal impacts on test scores measure their overall impact on
students, we exploit plausibly exogenous school assignments and data from Trinidad and …

This paper investigates physician altruism toward patients' health benefit using behavioral
data from Hennig-Schmidt et al.'s (2011) laboratory experiment. In the experiment, medical …

Mixed payment systems have become a prominent alternative to paying physicians through
fee‐for‐service and capitation. While theory shows mixed payment systems to be superior …

Using controlled experiments, we examine how individuals make choices when faced with
multiple options. Choice tasks are designed to mimic the selection of health insurance …