The purpose of this paper is to argue that systematic data heterogeneity exists when the objective of pharmacotherapy is improved health-related quality of life (HR-QOL), and that the pharmacotherapy's cost effectiveness will vary inversely with the patient's baseline HR-QOL (BHR-QOL), the...

There is no consensus on whether a publicly funded medical savings account (MSA) program can generate net savings for government. We develop an analytical framework and demonstrate that the savings/cost implications of such a program depend critically on six factors: the size distribution of...

In this paper, two tests are conducted of the null hypothesis that self-employed Canadian dentists do not shift the burden of their personal income tax forward to their patients by charging higher real dental fees. The first test, using ordinary least squares estimation of a reduced-form dental...

A correlation between age at immigration and earnings is observed in Canadian census data. The evidence supports three underlying sources of the effect; first, work experience in the source country yields virtually no return in the host country; second, the return to education varies with age at...