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- Faculty Publications (265)
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Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants
By: Pian Shu
This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance applicants, previously examined only in the theoretical literature. Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that...
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Disability Insurance;
Asset Accumulation;
Labor Force Participation;
Assets;
Behavior;
Employment;
Insurance;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Shu, Pian. "Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants." Journal of Public Economics 129 (September 2015): 26–40.
- Blog Post
Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care
Although many conservatives are gnashing their teeth about the Supreme Court's upholding the individual mandate, had it not been upheld, their worst nightmares would have occurred: government would have required hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for... View Details
Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Health Insurance;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care." Huffington Post, The Blog (June 29, 2012). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-e-herzlinger/health-insurance-market-mandate_b_1637762.html.
- Article
What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like?
Huckman, Robert S. "What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like?" Harvard Business Review (website) (February 6, 2018).
- 09 Jul 2009
- News
Should We Buy Health Insurance Like Yogurt?
- 2013
- Working Paper
Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants
By: Pian Shu
Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets immediately prior to their application and exhibit lower labor force attachment than accepted...
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Keywords:
Disability Insurance;
Asset Accumulation;
Labor Force Participation;
Assets;
Behavior;
Employment;
Insurance;
Insurance Industry;
United States
Shu, Pian. "Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-008, July 2013.
- 16 Jul 2010
- News
Health Insurance Rate Wars - Are We Focused on the Right Fight?
Give Employees Cash to Purchase Their Own Health Insurance
Employers’ and employees’ health care costs continue to skyrocket. A solution is to allow employers to give employees pre-tax cash to purchase their own health insurance. This move, enabled by a newly enacted federal rule, would put competitive pressure on insurers,...
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- 30 Oct 2015
- News
Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?
- 15 Sep 2009
- News
Insurance supermarket risks
- 28 Sep 2020
- News
Some Workers Face Looming Cutoffs in Health Insurance
- 2020
- Working Paper
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to...
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Keywords:
After-tax Income;
Consumer-driven Health Care;
Health Care Costs;
Health Insurance;
Income Inequality;
Tax Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Insurance;
Employees;
Income;
Taxation;
Policy;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- Article
Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, and the Cost of Network Breadth
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Igal Hendel, Victoria Marone and Christopher Ody
Anecdotal reports and systematic research highlight the prevalence of narrow-network plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplaces. At the same time, Marketplace premiums in the period 2014–2016 were much lower than projected by the Congressional...
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Dafny, Leemore S., Igal Hendel, Victoria Marone, and Christopher Ody. "Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, and the Cost of Network Breadth." Health Affairs 36, no. 9 (September 2017).
- 02 May 2018
- News
Why Employers Drag Feet on Value-Based Insurance
- April 2022
- Article
AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Avi Goldfarb, Timo Minssen and W. Nicholson Price II
Despite enthusiasm about the potential to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine and health care delivery, adoption remains tepid, even for the most compelling technologies. In this article, the authors focus on one set of challenges to AI adoption: those...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Medicine;
Health Care and Treatment;
Legal Liability;
Insurance;
Technology Adoption;
AI and Machine Learning
Stern, Ariel Dora, Avi Goldfarb, Timo Minssen, and W. Nicholson Price II. "AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 3, no. 4 (April 2022).
- September 2013 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Ping An Health (PAH): Towards a Comprehensive Private Health Insurance Market in China
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Da Liu
- March 2021
- Case
Humana (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ashley Ifeadike
To implement a bold new strategy, Humana needed to decide how to prioritize the pillars; where to own and where to partner; how much risk is acceptable; and how to continue to deliver strong operational performance while implementing a new strategy. Had the firm made...
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Keywords:
Health & Wellness;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Costs;
Health Insurance;
Health Insurance Marketplaces;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Insurance;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ashley Ifeadike. "Humana (A)." Harvard Business School Case 321-097, March 2021.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Detecting Anomalous Patterns of Care Using Health Insurance Claims
By: Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
- Article
Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Dranove, Frank Limbrock and Fiona Scott Morton
Dafny, Leemore S., David Dranove, Frank Limbrock, and Fiona Scott Morton. "Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 11, no. 2 (2011).
- 20 Jul 2016
- News