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The Role of Consumer Knowledge of Insurance Benefits in the Demand for Preventative Health / Stephen T. Parente, David Salkever, Joan DaVanzo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parente, Stephen T. (Stephen Thomas), 1965-
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9912.
- NBER working paper series no. w9912
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.
- Summary:
- In 1992, the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced new insurance coverage for two preventive services influenza vaccinations and mammograms. Economists typically assume transactions occur with perfect information and foresight. As a test of the value of information, we estimate the effect of consumer knowledge of these benefits on their demand. Treating knowledge as endogenous in a two-part model of demand, we find that consumer knowledge has a substantial positive effect on the use of preventive services. Our findings suggest that strategies to educate the insured Medicare population about coverage of preventive services may have substantial social value.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2003.
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