| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23682 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23682 |
| The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach | |
| Adam I. Biener; John Cawley; Chad Meyerhoefer | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-21 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables to estimate the causal impact of youth obesity on U.S. medical care costs. We examine data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2001-2013 and instrument for child BMI using the BMI of the child’s biological mother. IV estimates indicate that obesity raises annual medical care costs by $1,354 (in 2013 dollars) or 159%, which is considerably higher than previous estimates of the association of youth obesity with medical costs; thus, the cost-effectiveness of anti-obesity interventions have likely been underestimated. The costs of youth obesity are borne almost entirely by third party-payers, which is consistent with substantial externalities of youth obesity, which in turn represents an economic rationale for government intervention. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23682 |
| 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/581355 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Adam I. Biener,John Cawley,Chad Meyerhoefer. The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach. 2017. |
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| w23682.pdf（973KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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