Economist, professor at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University.
Boston, MA
Joined December 2008
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📄 New Working Paper: “Social Defaults and Plan Choice: The Case of Spousal Following” — joint with Tim Layton, Daniel Prinz, and Julia Yates.
nber.org/papers/w34137
We’ve been working on this for a very long time, and we’re thrilled to share it. 🧵
Bottom line: people behave as if their spouse’s plan is a default option.
That’s a new peer-effect story — one that matters because the optimal insurance plan is person-specific. What’s right for your spouse may be wrong for you.
I'm teaching two MBA classes this semester: Health Strategy and Managerial Economics. If you are an instructor and my slides might be useful for you, please DM me. I'll send them over.
If you're in San Antonio tomorrow, 2:30 PM Friday, please join us at @uchicagopress booth #303 at ASSA, for a giveaway of BETTER HEALTH ECONOMICS. We’ll have fifty copies on hand, first come, first serve. There will also be drinks, depending on Texas law and conference rules.
Thank you everyone who pre-ordered Better Health Economics, my new book with @ProfNoto.
For everyone else, you can DM / email me for review material, class notes, slides, etc. You can also just request an instructor copy here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
You can also request an instructor’s review copy by following the link on the book’s publisher website, here.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…