Author Question: The RAND Health Insurance Study a. examined cross-section data to estimate the demand function for ... (Read 69 times)

Evvie72 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

The RAND Health Insurance Study
a. examined cross-section data to estimate the demand function for medical care.
b. was the most extensive controlled experiment in health insurance ever conducted in the United States.
c. like most economic studies, was based on individual decisions in voluntarily choosing health insurance coverage.
d. was flawed due to severe self-selection bias.
e. was set up to study medical outcomes when individuals were free to choose the type of health coverage they desired.

Question 2

Perfectly competitive markets will tend to under-allocate resources to nonexclusive public goods because:
a. these goods are produced under conditions of increasing returns to scale.
b. no single individual can appropriate the total benefits provided by the purchase of such goods.
c. these goods are best produced under conditions of monopoly.
d. no private producer can provide the capital necessary to produce such goods.