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Health Insurance for "Humans": Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare by Handel, Benjamin R., Kolstad, Jonathan T.

“…Traditional models of insurance choice are predicated on fully informed and rational consumers protecting themselves from exposure to financial risk. In…”
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WHAT DOES A DEDUCTIBLE DO? THE IMPACT OF COST-SHARING ON HEALTH CARE PRICES, QUANTITIES, AND SPENDING DYNAMICS by Brot-Goldberg, Zarek C., Chandra, Amitabh, Handel, Benjamin R., Kolstad, Jonathan T.

“…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…”
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The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care: Evidence from Massachusetts by Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key features of this legislation were a model…”
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Information and Quality When Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards by Kolstad, Jonathan T.

“…If profit maximization is the objective of a firm, new information about quality should affect firm behavior only through its effects on market demand. I…”
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Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice by Hackmann, Martin B., Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…We develop a model of selection that incorporates a key element of recent health reforms: an individual mandate. Using data from Massachusetts, we estimate the…”
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The effect of pay-for-performance in hospitals: lessons for quality improvement by Werner, Rachel M, Kolstad, Jonathan T, Stuart, Elizabeth A, Polsky, Daniel

“…The payment approach known as "pay-for-performance" has been widely adopted with the aim of improving the quality of health care. Nonetheless, little is known…”
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Mandate-based health reform and the labor market: Evidence from the Massachusetts reform by Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…•We model the labor market impact of the Massachusetts and national health reforms.•Our approach identifies “sufficient statistics” for welfare analysis.•We…”
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The Health Plan Environment In California Contributed To Differential Use Of Telehealth During The COVID-19 Pandemic by Whaley, Christopher M, Ito, Yuki, Kolstad, Jonathan T, Cowling, David W, Handel, Benjamin

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has led to substantial increases in the use of telehealth and virtual care in the US. Differential patient and provider access to…”
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Quality and Consumer Decision Making in the Market for Health Insurance and Health Care Services by Kolstad, Jonathan T., Chernew, Michael E.

“…This article reviews the literature relating quality to consumer choice of health plan or health care provider. Evidence suggests that consumers tend to choose…”
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ACA-mandated elimination of cost sharing for preventive screening has had limited early impact by Mehta, Shivan J, Polsky, Daniel, Zhu, Jingsan, Lewis, James D, Kolstad, Jonathan T, Loewenstein, George, Volpp, Kevin G

“…The Affordable Care Act eliminated patient cost sharing for evidence-based preventive care, yet the impact of this policy on colonoscopy and mammography rates…”
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Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform by Hackmann, Martin B., Kolstad, Jonathan T., Kowalski, Amanda E.

“…We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in…”
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Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery by Cutler, David M., Huckman, Robert S., Kolstad, Jonathan T.

“…Prior studies suggest that with elastically supplied inputs free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity,…”
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Designing health insurance exchanges: key decisions by Starc, Amanda, Kolstad, Jonathan T

“…A cornerstone of health care reform is the establishment of state-level insurance exchanges where individuals and small businesses can purchase health…”
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The Health Plan Environment In California Contributed To Differential Use Of Telehealth During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Study examines differential use of telehealth in California during the COVID-19 pandemic by Whaley, Christopher M., Ito, Yuki, Kolstad, Jonathan T., Cowling, David W., Handel, Benjamin

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