Paying for Health Insurance: The Trade-Off between Competition and Adverse Selection
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 113 (2) , 433-466
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355398555649
Abstract
We use data on health plan choices by employees of Harvard University to compare the benefits of insurance competition with the costs of adverse seleKeywords
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