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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

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Alan, Sule (York University and McMaster University)
Crossley, Thomas F. (McMaster University)
Grootendorst, Paul (McMaster University and University of Toronto)
Veall, Michael R. () (McMaster University and IZA Bonn)

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Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are estimated. Difference-in-difference mean and 80th percentile regressions examine budget shares by low-income and high-income households before and after the introduction of provincial prescription drug programs. The evidence is consistent with the view that unlike senior prescription drug subsidies, nonsenior prescription drug subsidies are probably more redistributive than an equal-cost proportional income transfer.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 695.

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Date of creation: Jan 2003
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Keywords: prescription drug benefits incidence

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I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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  1. Adonis Yatchew, 1998. "Nonparametric Regression Techniques in Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 36(2), pages 669-721, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Vincenzo Atella & Franco Peracchi & Domenico Depalo & Claudio Rossetti, 2006. "Drug compliance, co-payment and health outcomes: evidence from a panel of Italian patients," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 15(9), pages 875-892. [Downloadable!]
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