ArticleAmerican economic journal. Economic policy2016
Paying on the margin for medical care: Evidence from breast cancer treatments.
Article in American economic journal. Economic policy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- PRODUCING HEALTH: MEASURING VALUE ADDED OF NURSING HOMES.Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society · 2025Article
- Health Risk and the Value of Life.Journal of public economics · 2025Article
- Lifestyle choices among women with breast cancer in the United States.Public health challenges · 2024Article
- The Impact of Catastrophic Medical Insurance in China: A five-year patient-level panel study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2021Article
- Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance.American economic journal. Economic policy · 2019Article
- Health information seeking behavior of female breast cancer patients.Journal of education and health promotion · 2018Article
- The Payer and Patient Cost Burden of Open Breast Conserving Procedures Following Percutaneous Breast Biopsy.Breast cancer : basic and clinical research · 2018Article
- BEHAVIORAL HAZARD IN HEALTH INSURANCE.The quarterly journal of economics · 2015Article
- Behavioral hazard in health insurance.National Bureau of Economic Research bulletin on aging and health · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
We present a simple graphical framework to illustrate the potential welfare gains from a "top-up" health insurance policy requiring patients to pay the incremental price for more expensive treatment options. We apply this framework to breast cancer treatments, where lumpectomy with radiation therapy is more expensive than mastectomy but generates similar average health benefits. We estimate the relative demand for lumpectomy using variation in distance to the nearest radiation facility, and estimate that the "top-up" policy increases social welfare by $700-2,500 per patient relative to two common alternatives. We briefly discuss additional tradeoffs that arise from an ex-ante perspective.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.