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Keith Ericson
Dean’s Research Scholar
Professor, Markets, Public Policy, and Law
Department Chair, Markets, Public Policy, and Law
For full information, please see my website at http://www.practicingeconomist.com
Education
PhD, Harvard University, 2011
AM, Harvard University, 2008
BA, Williams College, 2004
Publications
Ericson, K., Sacarny, A., Zhou, A. (2023). “Dangerous Prescribing and Healthcare Fragmentation: Evidence from Opioids”, Journal of Public Economics
Agha, L., Ericson, K., Zhao, X. (2023). “The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Rebitzer, J., Agha, L., Ericson, K., Geissler, K. (2022). “Team relationships and performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks”, Management Science
Craig, S., Ericson, K., Starc, A. (2021). “How Important is Price Variation between Health Insurers?”, Journal of Health Economics
Ericson, K., Kircher, P., Spinnewijn, J., Starc, A. (2021). “Inferring Risk Perceptions and Preferences Using Choice from Insurance Menus: Theory and Evidence”, Economic Journal, 131 (634), 713-713
Ericson, K. (2020). “When consumers do not make an active decision: Dynamic default rules and their equilibrium effects”, Games and Economic Behavior, 124 369-385
Cohen, J., Ericson, K., Laibson, D., White, J. (2020). “Measuring Time Preferences”, Journal of Economic Literature, 58 (2), 299-347
Dorison, C., Wang, K., Rees, V., Kawachi, I., Ericson, K., Lerner, J. (2020). “Sadness, but not all negative emotions, heightens addictive substance use.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117 (2), 943-949
Ericson, K., Geissler, K., Lubin, B. (2018). “The Impact of Partial-Year Enrollment on the Accuracy of Risk-Adjustment Systems: A Framework and Evidence”, American Journal of Health Economics, 4 (4), 454-478
Ericson, K., Sydnor, J. (2017). “The Questionable Value of Having a Choice of Levels of Health Insurance Coverage”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (4), 51-72
Ericson, K. (2017). “On the Interaction of Memory and Procrastination: Implications for Reminders, Deadlines, and Empirical Estimation”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 15 (3), 692-719
Ericson, K., Kingsdale, J., Layton, T., Sacarny, A. (2017). “Nudging Leads Consumers In Colorado To Shop But Not Switch ACA Marketplace Plans”, Health Affairs, 36 (2), 311-319
Ericson, K., Starc, A. (2016). “How product standardization affects choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange.”, J Health Econ, 50 71-85
Ericson, K., Coffman, L., Coffman, K. (2016). “The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment are Substantially Underestimated”, Management Science
Ericson, K., Kessler, J. (2016). “The articulation of government policy: Health insurance mandates versus taxes”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 124 43-54
Ericson, K., Starc, A. (2015). “Pricing Regulation and Imperfect Competition on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 97 (3), 667-682
Ericson, K., White, J., Laibson, D., Cohen, J. (2015). “Money earlier or later? Simple heuristics explain intertemporal choices better than delay discounting does.”, Psychol Sci, 26 (6), 826-833
Ericson, K., Starc, A. (2015). “Measuring Consumer Valuation of Limited Provider Networks”, American Economic Review, 105 (5), 115-119
Marzilli Ericson, K., Fuster, A. (2014). “The Endowment Effect”, Annual Review of Economics, 6 (1), 555-579
Ericson, K. (2014). “Consumer Inertia and Firm Pricing in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Insurance Exchange”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6 (1), 38-64
Ericson, K., Stare, A. (2012). “Designing and Regulating Health Insurance Exchanges: Lessons from Massachusetts”, INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 49 (4), 327-338
Ericson, K., Starc, A. (2012). “Heuristics and Heterogeneity in Health Insurance Exchanges: Evidence from the Massachusetts Connector”, American Economic Review, 102 (3), 493-497
Marzilli Ericson, K., Fuster, A. (2011). “Expectations as Endowments: Evidence on Reference-Dependent Preferences from Exchange and Valuation Experiments *”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (4), 1879-1907
Ericson, K. (2011). “Forgetting We Forget: Overconfidence And Memory”, Journal of the European Economic Association, 9 (1), 43-60
Cutler, D., Ericson, K. (2010). “Cost-effectiveness analysis in markets with high fixed costs.”, Pharmacoeconomics, 28 (10), 867-875
McClure, S., Ericson, K., Laibson, D., Loewenstein, G., Cohen, J. (2007). “Time discounting for primary rewards”, Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (21), 5796-5804