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17824132

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-8-31
pubmed:abstractText
I use data from the University of California to empirically examine the role of social learning in employees' choices of health plans. The basic empirical strategy starts with the observation that if social learning is important, health plan selections should appear to be correlated across employees within the same department. Estimates of discrete choice models in which individuals' perceived payoffs are influenced by coworkers' decisions reveal a significant (but not dominant) social effect. The strength of the effect depends on factors such as the department's size or the employee's demographic distance from her coworkers. The estimated effects are present even when the model allows for unobserved, department-specific heterogeneity in employee preferences, so the results cannot be explained away by unobservable characteristics that are common to employees of the same department.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
H
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0741-6261
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
HSR
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Social learning and health plan choice.
pubmed:affiliation
Stanford University, USA. asorensen@stanford.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.