Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market

Ketcham and Kuminoff’s research was supported by a grant from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research and Educational Foundation. The findings do not necessarily represent the views of the NIHCM Research and Education Foundation or the National Bureau of Economic Research. We are grateful for insights and suggestions from Gautam Gowrisankaran, Kate Ho, Sebastien Houde, Mike Keane, Christos Makridis, Alvin Murphy, Sean Nicholson, Jaren Pope, Dan Silverman, Meghan Skira, V. Kerry Smith, and seminar audiences at the AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting, the Congressional Budget Office, Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the ASU Health Economics Conference, the Annual Health Economics Conference, the Quantitative Marketing and Economics Conference, the Health Econometrics Conference, Brigham Young University, Cornell University, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, Northern Arizona University, Stanford University, University of Arizona, UC Santa Barbara, University of Calgary, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, University of Miami, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.

• October 11, 2016