Financial transaction costs reduce benefit take-up evidence from zero-premium health insurance plans in Colorado
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Keywords
Zero-price effect; Health insurance; Affordable care act; Regression discontinuity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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