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Does Widowhood Explain Gender Differences in Out-of-Pocket Medical Spending Among the Elderly?
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2011
; however, our estimates combined with differences in rates of widowhood across gender suggest that marital status can explain … only one third of the gender difference in total out-of-pocket medical spending, leaving a large portion unexplained. On … the other hand, gender differences in widowhood more than explain the observed gender difference in out-of-pocket spending …
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A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2011
The pricing of medical products and services in the U.S. is notoriously complex. In health care, supply prices (those received by the manufacturer) are distinct from demand prices (those paid by the patient) due to health insurance. The insurer, in designing the benefit, decides what prices...
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The Long-Term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes
Wu, Vivian - 2011
This study examines the long term impact of Medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes using a natural experiment - the Balance Budget Act (BBA) of 1997. We use predicted Medicare revenue changes due to BBA, with simulated BBA payment cuts as an instrument, to categorize hospitals by...
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Health Shocks, Insurance Status and Net Worth : Intra- and Inter-Generational Effects
Conley, Dalton - 2011
An extensive literature has documented a robust correlation between socioeconomic status--measured in a variety of ways--and health outcomes; however, much uncertainty remains regarding what causal processes underlie this association. The present paper builds on a growing literature that seeks...
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Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession
Oh, Hyunseung - 2011
Between 2007 and 2009, government expenditures increased rapidly across the OECD countries. While economic research on the impact of government purchases has flourished, in the data, about three quarters of the increase in expenditures in the United States (and more in other countries) was in...
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Health Care Spending Growth and the Future of U.S. Tax Rates
Baicker, Katherine - 2011
The fraction of GDP devoted to health care in the United States is the highest in the world and rising rapidly. Recent economic studies have highlighted the growing value of health improvements, but less attention has been paid to the efficiency costs of tax-financed spending to pay for such...
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Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse : Evidence from an Audit Study in China
Currie, Janet - 2010
We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the physician-patient relationship. We conduct an audit study in which a pair of simulated patients with identical flu-like complaints visits the same physician. Simulated patient A is...
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The Medical Care Costs of Obesity : an Instrumental Variables Approach
Cawley, John - 2010
This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from reporting error in weight. Models are estimated using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel...
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The Asset Cost of Poor Health
Poterba, James M. - 2010
This paper examines the correlation between poor health and asset accumulation for households in the first nine waves of the Health and Retirement Survey. Rather than enumerating the specific costs of poor health, such as out of pocket medical expenses or lost earnings, we estimate how the...
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The Income Tax as Insurance : The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of the Medical Insurance Premiums
Kaplow, Louis - 2010
Whether personal income tax deductions are appropriate refinements to the concept of income or unwarranted tax expenditures continues to be the subject of debate. The casualty loss and medical expense deductions are frequently justified on the ground that ability to pay is reduced by largely...
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