Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Health Policy
Behavioral Responses To Programmatic Features Of States' Children's Health Insurance Programs, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce
Behavioral Responses To Programmatic Features Of States' Children's Health Insurance Programs, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce
Carole Roan Gresenz
No abstract provided.
Tradeoffs Between Public And Private Insurance Under Recent Chip Expansions To Higher Income Children, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce
Tradeoffs Between Public And Private Insurance Under Recent Chip Expansions To Higher Income Children, Carole Gresenz, S. Edgington, M. Laugesen, Jose Escarce
Carole Roan Gresenz
No abstract provided.
Price Elasticity Of Expenditure Across Health Care Services, Fabian Duarte
Price Elasticity Of Expenditure Across Health Care Services, Fabian Duarte
Fabian Duarte
Policymakers in countries around the world are faced with rising health care costs and are debating ways to reform health care to reduce expenditures. Estimates of price elasticity of expenditure are a key component for predicting expenditures under alternative policies. Using unique individual-level data compiled from administrative records from the Chilean private health insurance market, I estimate the price elasticity of expenditures across a variety of health care services. These rich data allow me to examine the heterogeneity of price elasticities across types of service and demographic groups. Using exogenous changes in price generated by changes made by the Chilean …
Workers On The Margin: Who Drops Health Coverage When Prices Rise?, Edward Okeke, Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier
Workers On The Margin: Who Drops Health Coverage When Prices Rise?, Edward Okeke, Richard Hirth, Kyle Grazier
Edward Okeke
We revisit the question of price elasticity of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) take-up by directly examining changes in the take-up of ESI at a large firm in response to exogenous changes in employee premium contributions. We find that, on average, a 10% increase in the employee’s out-of-pocket premium increases the probability of dropping coverage by approximately 1%. More importantly, we find heterogeneous impacts: married workers are much more price-sensitive than single employees, and lower-paid workers are disproportionately more likely to drop coverage than higher-paid workers. Elasticity estimates for employees below the 25th percentile of salary distribution in our sample are nearly …