Journal article
Willingness‐to‐pay for parallel private health insurance: evidence from a laboratory experiment
Abstract
Abstract Debate over the effects of public versus private health care finance persists in both academic and policy circles. This paper presents the results of a revealed preference laboratory experiment that tests how characteristics of the public health system affect a subject's willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for parallel private health insurance. Consistent with the theoretical predictions of Cuff et al. (2010), subjects’ average WTP is lower and …
Authors
Buckley NJ; Cuff K; Hurley J; McLeod L; Nuscheler R; Cameron D
Journal
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 137–166
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
2 2012
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01690.x
ISSN
0008-4085