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Health Insurance and Lifestyle Choices: Identifying Ex Ante Moral Hazard in the US Market

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  • Anderson E Stanciole

    (University of York)

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There is extensive debate in the literature about the practical significance of ex ante moral hazard in health insurance markets. This paper uses data from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1999–2003) to estimate a structural model of individual choice of insurance coverage and four lifestyle decisions: heavy smoking, heavy drinking, lack of exercise and obesity. The results show that health insurance has significant incentive effects on lifestyle choices, increasing the propensity to heavy smoking, lack of exercise and obesity and decreasing the propensity to heavy drinking. There is also significant correlation between the errors of each equation. The results might have implications for the design of health financing policies.

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  • Anderson E Stanciole, 2008. "Health Insurance and Lifestyle Choices: Identifying Ex Ante Moral Hazard in the US Market," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 33(4), pages 627-644, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:33:y:2008:i:4:d:10.1057_gpp.2008.27
    DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2008.27
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