Intertemporal substitution in health care demand: Evidence from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
Nonlinear cost-sharing in health insurance encourages intertemporal substitution because patients can reduce their out-of-pocket costs by concentrating spending in years when they hit the deductible. We develop a test for intertemporal substitution and apply it to data from the RAND Health Insurance...
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Elsevier B.V.
2019
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