Partial Outsourcing of Public Programs: Evidence on Determinants of Choice in Medicare

For helpful comments, we thank Jason Abaluck, Michael Geruso, Victoria Marone, Sean Nicholson, Robert Town, and conference participants at the 2021 American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference. We thank Megan Hyland for excellent research assistance. Cabral gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1845190). This research was also supported by a pilot grant within grant P30AG066614, awarded to the Center on Aging and Population Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin by the National Institute on Aging; by grant P2CHD042849, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; and by the Cornell Center for the Social Sciences. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, any other entity, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• April 12, 2023