Very interesting read:
causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...

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In that case, the subtle problem could be revealed in a comment.

Good point. In the second paper, he considers both types of beneficial MH, including the one you model.

Given these considerations and given that you model med expenses as perfectly divisible, i think that your paper models a de Meza-type of beneficial MH rather than a Nyman type.

For, if expenses are perfectly divisible, you can always afford to spend a little more on meds by reducing other consumption (ruling out corner solutions). Then it's not lack of affordability that prevents you from getting more meds but that you prefer to spend your money on other consumption.

I think a crucial difference between de Meza's and Nyman's ideas of beneficial MH is that the latter relates it to unaffordable medical expenses becoming affordable through insurance. That again requires indivisibility of such expenses.

That being said: The idea that limited savings possibilities (liqu constraints) increase beneficial MH is a cool idea, though.

I agree on its importance. Less on it being surprising given that the idea of beneficial moral hazard is around for several decades now (de Meza 1983, Nyman 1999). There is also already a literature on how it affects the evaluation of public insurance schemes like Medicaid.

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Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus.

As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees.

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An empirical econ paper needs two things: 738 robustness checks concluding we can’t really ever fully be sure of internal validity in the appendix, and one (1) wild back of the envelope calculation indicating that the result is world-changing in the discussion section

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