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 …

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 …

Consumers' health plan choices are highly persistent even though optimal plans change
over time. This paper separates two sources of inertia, inattention to plan choice and …

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 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 introduce a simple method of recovering attention costs from choice data. Our method
rests on a precise analogy with production theory. Costs of attention determine consumer …

This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance
markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice …

A large literature in empirical public finance relies on “bunching” to identify a behavioral
response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to …