Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature
on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in …

We study how choice quality relates to socioeconomic factors, using population-wide data
on health insurance choices and utilization in the Netherlands. We document a striking …

The regulated insurance exchanges set up in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were designed
to deliver affordable, efficient health coverage through private insurers. It is crucial to study …

In the context of Sweden, we show that having a doctor in the family raises preventive health
investments throughout the life cycle, improves physical health, and prolongs life. Two quasi …

We show in two natural experiments that default rules in Medicare Part D have large,
persistent effects on enrollment and drug utilization of low-income beneficiaries. The …

In this chapter we outline the tools that have been developed to model and analyze
competition and regulation in health care markets, and describe particular papers that apply …

Insurance choices are often hard to rationalize by standard theory and frequently appear
suboptimal. A key reason may be that people are unable to map the cost-sharing features of …

Why do low income patients tend to go to lower quality health care providers, even when
they are free? We show that differential information about provider quality is an important …

Choice-based health insurance systems require individuals to be proficient in selecting a
suitable health plan. However, individuals are not always well informed, possibly leading to …

Methods designed to guide the allocation of healthcare so as to maximize population health
have been criticized as fundamentally unfair. In a closer analysis of this ethical critique of the …