Essays on Information in Health Economics

Download or read book Essays on Information in Health Economics written by Ethan Marc Jared Lieber and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central feature of the market for health care is imperfect information. I study three different aspects of information in health care in this dissertation. First, I show how health insurance affects consumer search and the prices paid for health care. Second, I show how online health information has changed the demand for physician visits and estimate how much people value online health information. And third, I show how a physician's medical liability affects where she chooses to practice medicine, but that states with liability laws favorable to physicians attract lower quality physicians.