Plausibly Exogenous [658] - Cost Sharing (11/07/2021)
LHS Variable
Health spending
RHS Variable
Health spending
Source of Exogenous Variation
A large self-insured firm that required all of its employees to switch from an insurance plan that provided free health care to a nonlinear, high-deductible plan
- Brot-Golberg et al. (2017), “What does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics”