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Health Care is not a Luxury: Evidence from OECD data

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  • Anindya Sen

    (Department of Economics, University of Waterloo)

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Most research using cross-country data find income elasticities with respect to health expenditure equal to or exceeding unity. These results might be confounded due to omitted variables bias as well the presence of unobserved country and year specific determinants of per capita health expenditures. Empirical results from fifteen OECD countries between 1990 and 1998 support these hypotheses. Specifically, OLS coefficient estimates drop by roughly more than 50% with the use of two way fixed effects models and the inclusion of various demand and supply based determinants of per capita health expenditrues.

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  • Anindya Sen, 2002. "Health Care is not a Luxury: Evidence from OECD data," Working Papers 02006, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics, revised Jan 2002.
  • Handle: RePEc:wat:wpaper:02006
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    1. Yan Feng & Toby Watt & Anita Charlesworth & Grace Marsden & Adam Roberts & Jon Sussex, 2017. "What Determines the Health Care Expenditure of High Income Countries? A Dynamic Estimation," Applied Economics and Finance, Redfame publishing, vol. 4(6), pages 1-16, November.
    2. Di Matteo, Livio, 2005. "The macro determinants of health expenditure in the United States and Canada: assessing the impact of income, age distribution and time," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(1), pages 23-42, January.

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