全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Realized and Anticipated Effects

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20348
来源ID	Working Paper 20348
	How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Realized and Anticipated Effects
	Alan C. Monheit; Irina Grafova; Rizie Kumar
发表日期	2014-07-31
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Families in constrained economic circumstances resulting from economic shocks face difficult choices regarding how best to spend their diminished resources. As families strive to preserve their living standards, decisions regarding health care use and its allocation among family members may become more discretionary and complex. Using two-year panel data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2004 to 2011, we examine how the intra-family allocation of health care spending responds to realized and anticipated changes in family economic status. We focus on the share of total family health care spending allocated to children, and measure realized economic shocks based on changes in the family's income, employment, and health insurance status. We account for anticipated economic shocks by differentiating families by whether they are observed prior to, at the onset of, or during the Great Recession, or in the post-recession period. Our findings suggest that both types of economic shocks affect the share of family health care spending allocated to children, with findings more pronounced for single-mother families. We also find that realized economic shocks have a greater impact on children's spending share than the anticipated change in economic status associated with the Great Recession and its recovery.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20348
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578021
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alan C. Monheit,Irina Grafova,Rizie Kumar. How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Realized and Anticipated Effects. 2014.