Household Preferences and Joint Decisions on Employer-Provided Health Insurance Access.

This paper examines how spousal access to employer-provided health insurance ( EPHI) affects preferences to acquire the same access at both the individual and household level. Regarding household decision process as a cooperative, simultaneous game between husband and wife, the empirical results sho...

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Published in:Manchester School (1463-6786) Vol. 84; no. 6; pp. 723 - 749
Main Authors: Shiu, Ji‐Liang, Tang, Meng‐Chi
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2016
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          Renmin University of China
          National Chung Cheng University
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        Labor supply
        Econometrics
        Job descriptions
        Employer-sponsored health insurance
        Insurance exchanges
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          Econometrics
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          All Other Insurance Related Activities
          Temporary Help Services
          Employer-sponsored health insurance
          Insurance exchanges
      ab: This paper examines how spousal access to employer-provided health insurance ( EPHI) affects preferences to acquire the same access at both the individual and household level. Regarding household decision process as a cooperative, simultaneous game between husband and wife, the empirical results show that spousal access to EPHI is negatively related to own EPHI access, indicating that household members as a unit prefer single EPHI access to dual access. Using family income share as a proxy for individual indirect utility, this study shows that the husband's incremental disutility of having spousal EPHI access is greater than that of the wife.
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