Code for: Inattention and Switching costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Florian Heiss, University of Dusseldorf; Daniel McFadden, University of California-Berkeley, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; Joachim Winter, University of Munich; Amelie Wuppermann, University of Halle-Wittenberg; Bo Zhou, University of Southern California

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  Results 02/18/2021 07:16:AM
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Project Citation: 

Heiss, Florian, McFadden, Daniel, Winter, Joachim, Wuppermann, Amelie, and Zhou, Bo. Code for: Inattention and Switching costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-08-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/E132641V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This package provides the code (using SAS, STATA and R) that allows replicating the results of Heiss et al. "Inattention and Switching Costs as Sources of Inertia in Medicare Part D". Most of the data used in this project are proprietary and cannot be made publicly available. The Readme file included in the package provides further guidance on data access.

Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (P01AG05842-18); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (P01AG033559); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (R56AG026622-01A1); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Aging (RC4AG039036); E.\ Morris Cox Fund at the University of California, Berkeley; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (CRC TRR 190)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Medicare; prescription drugs;; health insurance demand; dynamic discrete choice
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      C25 Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
      D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage USA
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2007 – 2010
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) program source code


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