Ongoing Projects - Taste for Insurance

Taste for Insurance research looks at what affects people’s decisions to enroll in certain health insurance plans and what makes them more or less likely to do so.

Cognitive Biases and the Demand for Health and Health Insurance

The goal of our proposed research is to develop a detailed theoretical and empirical foundation for distinguishing among sources of heterogeneity in tastes for intertemporal tradeoffs by modeling, and assessing the empirical importance of, prominent cognitive biases.

Health Insurance and Household Search

In this research, the investigators will develop an estimable household search model that is capable of yielding answers to a number of questions of interest to health and labor economists as well as policy-makers.

Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes: Joint Decision-Making by Two-Earner Couples

This study will investigate the joint decision-making of two-earner couples with respect to employer-based health insurance and the dimensions of a job that are correlated with employer insurance.

Health Insurance Enrollment Decisions: Understanding the Role of Preferences for Coverage

This project will examine the prevalence of weak preferences for coverage among the non-elderly US population, its change over the last decade, and the association between preferences for coverage and an individual's health insurance status, demographic characteristics, health and economic status, and health care utilization.

The Uninsured: Income, Risk, and the Affordability of Coverage

This project will examine the relationship between risk, income and the purchase of private health insurance.