Separating selection and incentive effects in health insurance

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Working paper: document de travail dans lequel l'auteur présente les résultats de ses travaux de recherche. Les working papers ont pour but de stimuler les discussions scientifiques avec les milieux intéressés et servent de base pour la publication d'articles dans des revues spécialisées.
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Titre
Separating selection and incentive effects in health insurance
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Gardiol Lucien, Geoffard Pierre-Yves, Grandchamp Chantal
Editeur
Centre for Economic Policy Research
Détails de l'institution
Centre for Economic Policy Research
Adresse
London
ISBN
0265-8003
Date de publication
2005
Numéro
5380
Genre
Discussion Paper
Langue
anglais
Nombre de pages
44
Résumé
This paper provides an analysis of the health insurance and health care consumption. A structural microeconomic model of joint demand for health insurance and health care is developed and estimated using full maximum likelihood method using Swiss insurance claims data for over 60,000 adult individuals. The estimation strategy relies on the institutional features of the Swiss system, in which each individual chooses among the same menu of contracts, ranked by the size of their deductible. The empirical analysis shows strong and robust evidence of selection effects. Nevertheless, once selection effects are controlled for, an important incentive effect ('ex-post moral hazard') remains. A decrease in the co-payment rate from 100% to 10% increases the marginal demand for health care by about 90% and from 100% to 0% by about 150%. The correlation between insurance coverage and health care expenditures may be decomposed into the two effects: 75% may be attributed to selection, and 25 % to incentive effects. [Authors] Plus d'informations: www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP5380.asp
Mots-clé
Insurance, Health , Health Services Needs and Demand
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