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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Zip-code Economics
- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Tag Archives: Health Insurance
Health Insurance for “Humans”: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare
From Ben Handel and Jonathan Kolstad: Traditional models of insurance choice are predicated on fully informed and rational consumers protecting themselves from exposure to financial risk. In practice, choosing an insurance plan from a set of complex non-linear contracts is a complicated decision often made … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Handel, Consumer Behavior, Discrete Choice, Health, Health Insurance, Jonathan Kolstad
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A Nice Profile of Leemore Dafny & Her Work on Competition in Health Insurance Markets
She […] determine[d] that insurers charge more profitable businesses higher premiums, a relationship strongest in geographic markets with a small number of carriers. Beyond higher costs, scant competition also probably causes “a lack of innovation,” she said. She published her … Continue reading
Horrible Situation, Interesting Economics Experiment
From a NYTimes article on new Medicaid coverage holes in certain states, i.e. Texas, Florida, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, which are refusing to expand Medicaid: In most cases, she said, adults with incomes from 32 percent to 100 percent of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Future Research, Health Insurance, Healthcare, inequality, Medicaid, Middle Class
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The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Here’s an interesting recent paper by Jeff Clemens on the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Abstract: I study the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Innovation by practitioners creates important roles for local patient flows and payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, Jeff Clemens, Medicaid, Medicare, patents
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Impacts on Health Behavior and Outcomes
Since many people are talking about raising the medicare eligibility age (e.g. Maya MacGuineas vs. Aaron E. Carroll, Matt Yglesias, Jared Bernstein, etc), I thought I’d highlight an AER paper by David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas that uses Medicare eligibility rules (i.e. … Continue reading
Are health insurance co-pays actually too high? New insights on “Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance”
Josh Schwartzstein presented an iteresting and provocative paper today that he is writing with Katherine Baicker and Sendhil Mullainathan. They point out that since people often underutilize care (e.g. don’t always take their pills) and their underuse is pretty common for treatments … Continue reading
