Regulations to design private yet publicly sponsored health insurance markets are
increasingly adopted in many OECD countries. Here I combine data and economic theory to …

We develop a new nonparametric approach for discrete choice and use it to analyze the
demand for health insurance in the California Affordable Care Act marketplace. The model …

I estimate demand for health insurance using consumer-level data from the California and
Washington ACA exchanges. I use the demand estimates to simulate the impact of policies …

Consumers in private health insurance markets are highly inertial. The literature has
repeatedly found consumers are willing to pay thousands of dollars to keep their health plan …

We study how inertia interacts with market power and adverse selection in managed
competition health insurance markets. We use consumer-level data to estimate a model of …

Public programs frequently use observable characteristics of recipients, such as income, to
target benefits. We show theoretically that when the provision of the subsidized good is …

Abstract Health Insurance Marketplaces have received considerable attention for their
narrow network health plans. Yet, little is known about consumer tastes for network breadth …

Every public health expenditure, including the one that saves lives or extends life
expectancy of particular persons (target population), bears a cost. Although cost …

Health insurance is increasingly provided through managed competition, in which subsidies
for consumers and risk adjustment for insurers are key market design instruments. We …

Objective To investigate how changes in insurer participation and composition as well as
state policies affect health plan affordability for individual market enrollees. Data Sources …