Replication Code for Medicare Part D Insurance Choice Analysis

Stata and MATLAB code replicates the article 'Insurance Choice with Non-Monetary Plan Attributes: Limited Consideration in Medicare Part D'. The package is authored by Maura Coughlin and hosted by the Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse. No actual Medicare data is included, as the analysis uses restricted-access data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Use Cases

• Replicate econometric models for insurance choice based on the described methodology.
• Study the impact of non-monetary plan attributes on consumer decisions in health insurance.
• Analyze patterns of limited consideration in insurance markets as referenced in the article.

Strengths

• Code is directly linked to a forthcoming article in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Author and hosting organization (Review of Economics and Statistics Dataverse) are specified.

Limitations

• The actual dataset used for analysis is not included; it is restricted-access Medicare data from CMS.
• Row count, column definitions, and file formats for any potential supplementary data are unknown.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) via ResDAC (restricted-access data).

Collection Method

Analysis uses restricted-access administrative data; replication package contains only code.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-20 17:16:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States (Medicare Part D program).