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Consumption is the largest component of GDP. Since the 1950s, the life cycle and the permanent income models have constituted the main analytical tools to the study of consumption behavior, both at the micro and at the aggregate levels. Since the late 1970s the literature has focused on versions...
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quality of care. It also touches on issues related to insurance and the demand for health care. The paper argues that long …
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paper, we examine demand for health information on the Internet. We find that individuals in poor health are more likely … professionals are more likely to turn to the Internet for health information. Our findings indicate that demand for consumer health …
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discussing the mechanisms by which managed care influences health care providers, concentrating on shifts in market demand and …
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased demand for healthcare across the U.S., but it is unclear … if or how the supply side has responded to meet this demand. In this paper, we take advantage of plausibly exogenous … geographical heterogeneity in the ACA to examine the healthcare education sector's response to increased demand for healthcare …
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patients may affect other patient groups. This paper examines how marginal shifts in the demand for services among the adult … simple theoretical framework for understanding how changes in the demand for care among adults under 65 may affect Medicare … spending. I then examine how two demand factors-recent coverage eligibility changes for parents and the firm size composition …
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This paper investigates the health of white adolescents, focusing particularly on the roles of family background and preventive medical care. This emphasis is motivated in part by our desire to study adolescent health in the context of the nature-nurture controversy. The findings indicate first,...
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Aggregate consumption Euler equations fit financial asset return data poorly. But they fit the return on the capital stock well, which leads us to three empirical findings relating to the capital income tax burden. First, capital taxation drives a wedge between consumption growth and the...
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In this paper we show that some of the predictions of models of consumer intertemporal optimization are not inconsistent with the patterns of non-durable expenditure observed in US household-level data. Our results and our approach are new in several respects. First, we use the only US micro...
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heterogeneous household demand and use it to conclude that increasing product variety drives these divergent trends. When more …
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