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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered : Evidence from Panel Data

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010

This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …

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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth : Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2014

The apparently unrelenting growth in the GDP-share of health spending (SHS) has been a perennial issue of policy concern. Does an equilibrium limit exist? The issue has been left open in recent dynamic models which take income growth and population aging as given. We view these variables as...

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...

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Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy : Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design

Ponzo, Michela - 2016

We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...

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Institutional Responses to Aging Populations and Economic Growth : A Panel Data Approach

Emerson, Patrick M. - 2019

responses using panel data for a set of OECD countries during the period 1975-2014. We find evidence that households do in fact …

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The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving : Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care

McDonald, Rebecca - 2018

This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...

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Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures : Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge - 2022

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on …

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Live Longer, Work Longer : The Changing Nature of the Labour Market for Older Workers in OECD Countries

Martin, John P. - 2018

Population ageing poses stark dilemmas for labour markets, social protection systems and cultural norms. It will put strong downward pressure on labour supply, leading to falling real incomes and huge financial pressures on social protection systems unless there is an offsetting increase in...

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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

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Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains : An Application to a Consumption Equation For Nicaragua

Bruno, Randolph - 2009

the bias in the unpaired sample. In a second step, corrected unpaired observations are used jointly with panel data. This …

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