Class 5: Motivation and Policy Background

Relevant links and other materials

Links to papers are listed alongside the full reference. PDFs of each paper are also available on Canvas.

• Required readings for this module:
  • Chapter 5 of Causal Inference: The Mixtape
  • Chapter 14 of The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
• Supplemental information and readings:
  • Chapters 1-2, and 4 of Causal Inference: The Mixtape
  • Chapters 1-5, 10, and 13 of The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
  • Chapters 2-3 of (Angrist and Pischke 2009)
• Data for this module:
  • Medicare Advantage repository

Objectives

• Explain some of the history and institutional details of Medicare Advantage
• Understand the economic theory underlying competition and pricing
• Understand, explain, and be able to calculate common measures of competition

References

Angrist, J., and J. Pischke. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.