Do insurers respond to active purchasing? Evidence from the Massachusetts health insurance exchange
Health insurance markets face continued challenges with high premiums and limited insurer competition.
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Depressive symptoms and conspiracy beliefs
Conspiratorial beliefs can endanger individuals and societies by increasing the likelihood of harmful behaviors such as the flouting of public health guidelines.
The Two-Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
Insurance markets often feature consumer sorting along both an extensive margin (whether to buy) and an intensive margin (which plan to buy).
Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-run Adaptation and its Externalities
As the largest user of global water, irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland and 40% of food production.
A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the US
The US spends substantially more on health care per capita than other high-income countries yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured.
The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective
This article, prepared as part of a special issue on multiarmed experiments, describes the design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, paying particular attention to the choice of arms.
Concerns about Patient Access to Biopharmaceuticals and Outcomes
A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds strong support globally for government regulation of biopharmaceutical prices.
The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers.
Joint patient selection and scheduling under no-shows: Theory and application in proton therapy
We study how to admit and schedule heterogeneous patients by using simple, interpretable, yet effective policies when capacity is scarce, no-show behavior is patient- and time-dependent, service durat
Because Data Can't Speak for Itself: A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories
People with important evidence-based ideas often struggle to translate data into stories their readers can relate to and understand.
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