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A Value-Based System Where Healthcare Providers are Accountable for Outcomes Will Benefit Patients
This post discusses the movement away from fee-for-service models in healthcare, towards value-based care in countries such as Singapore.
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Innovations in Probability-Based Internet Panel Data: Exploring the Understanding America Study
This post describes the Understanding America Study, an Internet-based panel which is actively creating an in-depth portrayal of the people in the U.S. – their stories, their daily lives, their preferences and their opinions.
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Who Would Have Believed it? Markets Can Reduce the ‘True’​ Price of Cancer Drugs
When it comes to cancer, however, it is the price of health — not the price of drugs — that matters. As we think about ways to wring value out of the health care system, we acknowledge that CMS reforms and markets seem to be working in therapeutic areas with rapid innovation.
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Why Your Employer-Sponsored Insurance May Ultimately Not Be Good For You
Nearly 160 million Americans get insurance through employers, but that does not mean it’s good social policy.
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What do Americans Think about Universal Basic Income?
A recent survey of public opinion on a Universal Basic Income found that support and opposition are roughly equivalent, but responses can be pushed in one direction or another by the order in which questions are presented.
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Conservatives Find More Meaning in Life than Liberals
The link between conservatism and meaning in life was strongest for social conservatives, who tend to resist cultural change and accept the status quo, which may increase their sense that life is coherent and stable, two key contributors to the perception that life is meaningful.
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How to Work in Interdisciplinary Teams
CESR behavioral scientist Wandi Bruine de Bruin discusses the conditions that make interdisciplinary research teams successful.
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Can Prize-Linked Incentives Improve Financial Behavior?
Results of a recent study suggest that prize-linked incentives may not change behavior, and may simply be adopted by individuals who are likely to be successful in the linked behavior anyway.
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To Deceive or Not to Deceive: The Debate about Deception in Economics
A survey of economists looks into general ideas of what is and is not acceptable when it comes to deception in economics.
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Are MTurk Participants as Happy as the Rest of Us?
MTurk survey respondents have much lower levels of life satisfaction than other representative samples, even after controlling for demographic differences among samples. The authors urge caution in using MTurk samples for studies where lower life satisfaction could impact results.
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