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Health care expenditure and income in the OECD reconsidered: Evidence from panel data

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - 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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The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E.; Cafiero, Elizabeth T.; McGovern, Mark 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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Equilibrium Health Spending and Population Aging in a Model of Endogenous Growth: Will the GDP Share of Health Spending Keep Rising?

Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - 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 rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008

We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...

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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana; Lakdawalla, Darius; … - 2009

The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...

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The effectiveness of health screening

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012

Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …

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Medical technology and the production of health care

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - 2011

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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Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries : A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2005

recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the analysis accounts for the fact that …

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Purchasing power parity for developing and developed countries: what can we learn from non-stationary panel data models?

Drine, Imed; Rault, Christophe - 2007

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004 …

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Trade and unemployment: what do the data say?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Prat, Julien; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2009

lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross …-sectional data on a larger set of countries. The time structure of the panel data allows us to deal with endogeneity concerns …

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