Who bears the consequences of administrative problems in health care? We use data on
repeated interactions between a large sample of US physicians and many different insurers …

Market provision of impure public goods such as insurance retirement savings and
education is common and growing as policy makers seek to offer more choice and gain …

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 …

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 …

While flood damage is determined by both flood intensity and population exposure, the US
has primarily focused on managing the former, with little success. This paper studies …

Policy makers increasingly offer choice or rely on markets in the provision of public services
(eg, health insurance, retirement savings). Choice frictions can unwind the potential benefits …

With the passage of the American Recovery Plan Act of 2021, roughly 12 million Americans
are eligible to purchase zero-premium Health Insurance Marketplace plans. Millions more …

We provide a new method to analyze discrete choice models with state dependence and
individual-by-product fixed effects and use it to analyze consumer choices in a policy …

Importance The American Rescue Plan increases premium subsidies for health insurance
marketplace enrollees, potentially leading to situations in which enrollees could switch to …