ECO 499
Insurance Market Dynamics
Explore how insurance pricing, risk, deductibles, and employer contributions affect coverage choices and the insurer's accounts.
Teaching Applications
Interactive economics applications created by Aaron Yelowitz. Change assumptions, compare outcomes, and explore the reasoning behind economic models.
Created by Aaron Yelowitz · Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky
ECO 499
Kentucky Medicaid Plan Assignment
Compare provider networks, change a simulated assignment rule, and see how switching changes enrollment and costs.
ECO 379
Hedonic Pricing and Park Valuation
Explore simulated house prices and park distances. Add or remove characteristics from the comparison and inspect the same houses across two years.
Market structure · Data cleaning
Measuring Local Market Concentration
Measure HHI in synthetic local real-estate markets and see how data cleaning, firm identity, geography, and guideline vintage change the result.
Insurance markets · Health economics
Adverse Selection and Underwriting in Life Insurance
Use fictional life-insurance records to see how applications, underwriting, and policy holding can tell different stories about adverse selection.