| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w28003
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 28003
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| Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice |
| Anya Samek; Justin R. Sydnor
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| 发表日期 | 2020-10-26
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Insurance choices are often hard to rationalize by standard theory and frequently appear sub-optimal. A key reason may be that people are unable to map the cost-sharing features of plans to their distribution of financial consequences. We develop and experimentally test a decision aid that provides this mapping to simplify comparisons of plan options. In two experiments mirroring typical health insurance decisions, we find that when people choose plans using standard feature-based information, they violate dominance at high rates. Our distribution-based decision aid substantially reduces dominance violations, and also changes choice patterns in situations where there is no dominant option. Choice patterns under feature-based menus can be most easily rationalized by models of heuristic choices, such as minimizing premium or deductible. With the decision aid, though, significantly more people have choice patterns that are better explained by expected utility theory. We compare our distribution-based approach to an alternative of providing estimates of the expected value of costs, which is the most common decision-support available in most insurance markets. Providing expected values affects choices in a similar direction as our consequence-based approach, but in a more muted fashion, and is only about half as effective at reducing dominance violations. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Economics of Information
; Financial Economics
; Financial Institutions
; Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28003
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585676
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Anya Samek,Justin R. Sydnor. Impact of Consequence Information on Insurance Choice. 2020.
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