The income distributive implications of recent private health insurance policy reforms in Australia
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-008-0111-8
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.
References listed on IDEAS
- Propper, Carol, 1993. "Constrained choice sets in the U.K. demand for private medical insurance," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(3), pages 287-307, July.
- Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong, 2007.
"How effective is “lifetime health cover” in raising private health insurance coverage in Australia? An assessment using regression discontinuity,"
Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(11), pages 1361-1374.
- Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong, 2004. "How Effective is Lifetime Health Cover in Raising Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia? An Assessment Using Regression Discontinuity," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2004n33, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
- Fairlie, Robert W, 1999.
"The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment,"
Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 17(1), pages 80-108, January.
- Fairlie, Robert, 1999. "The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt84v8v0nr, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
- Fairlie, Robert, 2014. "The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt49c4n0fg, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
- Fairlie, Robert W, 2014. "The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt01s9z9tv, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
- Oaxaca, Ronald, 1973.
"Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets,"
International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 14(3), pages 693-709, October.
- Ronald L Oaxaca, 1971. "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets," Working Papers 396, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
- H.E. Frech Iii & Sandra Hopkins & Garry Macdonald, 2003. "The Australian Private Health Insurance Boom: Was It Subsidies Or Liberalised Regulation?," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 22(1), pages 58-64, March.
- Besley, Timothy & Coate, Stephen, 1991.
"Public Provision of Private Goods and the Redistribution of Income,"
American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 81(4), pages 979-984, September.
- Besley, T. & Coate, S., 1989. "Public Provision Of Private Goods And The Redistribution Of Income," Papers 36, Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School - Discussion Paper.
- Besley, Timothy & Hall, John & Preston, Ian, 1999.
"The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?,"
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 72(2), pages 155-181, May.
- Tim Besley & John Hall & Ian Preston, 1996. "The demand for private health insurance: do waiting lists matter?," IFS Working Papers W96/07, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
- Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong, 2005.
"Effects of Recent Carrot‐and‐Stick Policy Initiatives on Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia,"
The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 81(254), pages 262-272, September.
- Alfons Palangkaraya & Jongsay Yong, 2004. "Effects of Recent Carrot-and-Stick Policy Initiatives on Private Health Insurance Coverage in Australia," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2004n20, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
- Oaxaca, Ronald L. & Ransom, Michael R., 1994. "On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 61(1), pages 5-21, March.
- Donald J. Wright, 2006. "Insurance and Monopoly Power in a Mixed Private/Public Hospital System," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 82(259), pages 460-468, December.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Gong, Xiaodong & Gao, Jiti, 2015.
"Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia,"
IZA Discussion Papers
9265, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Xiaodong Gong & Jiti Gao, 2017. "Nonparametric kernel estimation of the impact of tax policy on the demand for private health insurance in Australia," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 7/17, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
- Xiaodong Gong & Jiti Gao, 2015. "Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 6/15, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
- Kristjana Einarsdóttir & Anna Kemp & Fatima A Haggar & Rachael E Moorin & Anthony S Gunnell & David B Preen & Fiona J Stanley & C D’Arcy J Holman, 2012. "Increase in Caesarean Deliveries after the Australian Private Health Insurance Incentive Policy Reforms," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(7), pages 1-5, July.
- Mohammad Hajizadeh & Luke Brian Connelly & James Robert Gerard Butler, 2014. "Health Policy and Equity of Health Care Financing in Australia: 1973–2010," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 60(2), pages 298-322, June.
- Judith Liu & Yuting Zhang, 2023. "Elderly responses to private health insurance incentives: Evidence from Australia," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(12), pages 2730-2744, December.
- Yicheng Kang & Xiaodong Gong & Jiti Gao & Peihua Qiu, 2016. "Error-in-Variables Jump Regression Using Local Clustering," Monash Econometrics and Business Statistics Working Papers 13/16, Monash University, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- López Nicolás, Ángel & Vera-Hernández, Marcos, 2008. "Are tax subsidies for private medical insurance self-financing? Evidence from a microsimulation model," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(5), pages 1285-1298, September.
- Marco Caliendo & Frank M. Fossen & Alexander Kritikos & Miriam Wetter, 2015.
"The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not just a Matter of Personality,"
CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 61(1), pages 202-238.
- Marco Caliendo & Frank Fossen & Alexander Kritikos & Miriam Wetter, 2014. "The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality," CESifo Working Paper Series 4803, CESifo.
- Mizunoya, Suguru & Mitra, Sophie & Yamasaki, Izumi, 2018. "Disability and school attendance in 15 low- and middle-income countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 388-403.
- Fairlie, Robert W., 2003.
"An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models,"
Center Discussion Papers
28425, Yale University, Economic Growth Center.
- Fairlie, Robert, 2014. "An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt0067j7f0, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
- Fairlie, Robert W., 2006. "An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models," IZA Discussion Papers 1917, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Fairlie, Robert, 2014. "An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models," Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series qt7j86n5q3, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz.
- Robert W. Fairlie, 2003. "An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models," Working Papers 873, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.
- Fairlie Robert & Woodruff Christopher M., 2010.
"Mexican-American Entrepreneurship,"
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 1-44, February.
- Robert W. Fairlie & Christopher Woodruff, 2008. "Mexican-American Entrepreneurship," CEPR Discussion Papers 575, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
- Fairlie, Robert W. & Woodruff, Christopher, 2008. "Mexican-American Entrepreneurship," IZA Discussion Papers 3488, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Paolo Nicola Barbieri, 2022.
"Social distortion in weight perception: a decomposition of the obesity epidemic,"
Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 39(2), pages 685-713, July.
- Barbieri, Paolo Nicola, 2015. "Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic," Working Papers in Economics 639, University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics.
- Barbieri, Paolo Nicola, 2015. "Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic," MPRA Paper 68182, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Evelyn Benvin & Marcela Perticara, 2007.
"análisis de los cambios en la participación laboral femenina en Chile,"
Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business, vol. 22(1), pages 71-92, June.
- Evelyn Benvin & Marcela Perticara, 2007. "Análisis de los cambios en la participación laboral femenina en Chile," ILADES-UAH Working Papers inv180, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business.
- Sergi Jimenez & Natalia Jorgensen & José María Labeaga, 2008. "Immigration and the Demand for Health in Spain," Working Papers 2008-38, FEDEA.
- Judith Liu & Yuting Zhang, 2023. "Elderly responses to private health insurance incentives: Evidence from Australia," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 32(12), pages 2730-2744, December.
- Frank M. Fossen, 2012.
"Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion -- a decomposition based on a microeconometric model,"
Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(14), pages 1795-1812, May.
- Frank M. Fossen, 2009. "Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion: A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 936, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
- Frank M. Fossen, 2011. "Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion - A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model," Post-Print hal-00683162, HAL.
- Wolff, François-Charles, 2012.
"Decomposition of non-linear models using simulated residuals,"
Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 116(3), pages 346-348.
- François-Charles Wolff, 2012. "Decomposition of non-linear models using simulated residuals," Working Papers hal-00694421, HAL.
- François-Charles Wolff, 2012. "Decomposition of non-linear models using simulated residuals," Post-Print hal-03914525, HAL.
- Parry, Ian W.H., 2001.
"On the Efficiency of Public and Private Health Care Systems: An Application to Alternative Health Policies in the United Kingdom,"
Discussion Papers
10822, Resources for the Future.
- Parry, Ian, 2001. "On the Efficiency of Public and Private Health Care Systems: An Application to Alternative Health Policies in the United Kingdom," RFF Working Paper Series dp-01-07, Resources for the Future.
- R. Mussa, 2014.
"Extending the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to the Independent Double Hurdle Model: With Application to Parental Spending on Education in Malawi,"
Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 39-54, December.
- Mussa, Richard, 2014. "Extending the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition to the Independent Double Hurdle Model: With Application to Parental Spending on Education in Malawi," MPRA Paper 60740, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Joan Costa-Font & Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, 2021.
"Does Devolution Alter the Choice of Public versus Private Health Care?,"
Working Papers
1291, Barcelona School of Economics.
- Costa-Font, J. & Ferrer-i-Carbonell, A., 2021. "Does Devolution Alter the Choice of Public versus Private Health Care?," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 21/16, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York.
- Joan Costa & Jaume Garcia, 2001.
"Demand for private health insurance: Is there a quality gap?,"
Working Papers, Research Center on Health and Economics
531, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Joan Costa & Jaume Garcia, 2001. "Demand for private health insurance: Is there a quality gap?," Economics Working Papers 531, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
- Marisol Rodríguez & Alexandrina Stoyanova, 2008. "Changes in the demand for private medical insurance following a shift in tax incentives," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(2), pages 185-202, February.
- Font, Joan Costa & Fabbri, Daniele & Gil, Joan, 2010. "Decomposing cross-country differences in levels of obesity and overweight: Does the social environment matter?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(8), pages 1185-1193, April.
- Gintare Mazeikaite & Cathal O’Donoghue & Denisa M. Sologon, 2019.
"The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland,"
The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 20(4), pages 579-596, June.
- MAZEIKAITE Gintare & O'DONOGHUE Cathal & SOLOGON Denisa, 2018. "The Great Recession, financial strain and self-assessed health in Ireland," LISER Working Paper Series 2018-12, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER).
- Randall Ellis & Elizabeth Savage, 2008. "Run for cover now or later? The impact of premiums, threats and deadlines on private health insurance in Australia," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 8(4), pages 257-277, December.
- Robert W. Fairlie & Rebecca A. London, 2009.
"Race, ethnicity, and the dynamics of health insurance coverage,"
Research in Labor Economics, in: Ethnicity and Labor Market Outcomes, pages 335-373,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Fairlie, Robert W. & London, Rebecca A., 2008. "Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage," IZA Discussion Papers 3708, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
More about this item
Keywords
Private health insurance (PHI); Tax subsidy; Australia; I10; I18;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eujhec:v:10:y:2009:i:2:p:135-148. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.