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Jonathan T. Kolstad
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 47
Citations - 2640
Jonathan T. Kolstad is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Welfare. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 44 publications receiving 2259 citations. Previous affiliations of Jonathan T. Kolstad include Carnegie Mellon University & Harvard University.
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The Impact of Health Care Reform On Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of the individual mandate to obtain health insurance on utilization patterns and patient outcomes in Massachusetts, and found that the reform affected utilization patterns by decreasing length of stay and number of inpatient admissions originating from the emergency room.
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Health Insurance for "Humans": Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare.
TL;DR: This paper combines new administrative data on health plan choices and claims with unique survey data on consumer information to identify risk preferences, information frictions, and hassle costs and study the implications of counterfactual insurance allocations.
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The effect of pay-for-performance in hospitals: lessons for quality improvement.
TL;DR: It is suggested that tailoring pay-for-performance programs to hospitals' specific situations could have the greatest effect on health care quality.
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The Impact of Health Care Reform On Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of expansion to near-universal coverage state-wide and found that the reform decreased uninsurance by 36% relative to its initial level and to other states.
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Consumers' Misunderstanding of Health Insurance.
George Loewenstein,Joelle Y. Friedman,Barbara McGill,Sarah Ahmad,Suzanne Linck,Stacey Sinkula,John Beshears,James J. Choi,Jonathan T. Kolstad,David Laibson,Brigitte C. Madrian,John A. List,Kevin G. Volpp +12 more
TL;DR: There is strong evidence that consumers do not understand traditional plans and would better understand a simplified plan, but weaker evidence that the simplified plan would have strong appeal to consumers or change their healthcare choices.