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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26443 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26443 |
How Do Economic Shocks Affect Family Health Care Spending Burdens? | |
Irina B. Grafova; Alan C. Monheit; Rizie Kumar | |
发表日期 | 2019-11-11 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) for the years 2004 - 2012 to examine the impact of economic shocks on the family’s out-of-pocket health care spending burden. We define this burden as the share of family income devoted to out-of-pocket health care spending. In contrast to static, cross-sectional analyses, our study examines how the within-family change in spending burden over the two-year MEPS observation period responds to losses in family income, insurance, and employment. We also consider the impact of such losses on single-mother and two-parent families. To do so, we apply fractional response and health expenditure models using the correlated random effects (CRE) method to control for time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity across family units. We find evidence that the change in the out-of-pocket spending burden is sensitive to income shocks, and that income changes rather than changes in health spending per se appears to drive changes in the out-of-pocket burden. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26443 |
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/584115 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Irina B. Grafova,Alan C. Monheit,Rizie Kumar. How Do Economic Shocks Affect Family Health Care Spending Burdens?. 2019. |
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