The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later

Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein

NBER Working Paper No. 18642
Issued in December 2012

---- Acknowledgements -----

Aviva Aron-Dine contributed to this paper while she was a graduate student in Economics at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in June 2012. She is currently employed as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. The views in this paper do not represent those of the National Economic Council or the White House. We are grateful to the JEP editors (David Autor, John List, and the indefatigable Tim Taylor), as well as to Ran Abramitzky, Tim Bresnahan, Dan Fetter, Emmett Keeler, Will Manning, Joe Newhouse, Matt Notowidigdo, Sarah Taubman, and Heidi Williams for helpful comments, and to the National Institute of Aging (Grant No. R01 AG032449) for financial support; Aron-Dine also acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program. We thank the original RAND investigators for making their data so easily available and accessible. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Aviva Aron-Dine contributed to this paper while she was a graduate student in Economics at MIT. She received her Ph.D. in June 2012. She is currently employed as a Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. The views in this paper do not represent those of the National Economic Council or the White House.

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