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Health Care Expenditure and Income: A Global Perspective.

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posted on 2016-11-08, 15:35 authored by Badi Hani Baltagi, R. Lagravinese, F. Moscone, E. Tosetti
This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between healthcare expenditure and income in the world using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using panel data methods that allow one to account for unobserved heterogeneity, temporal persistence, and cross-section dependence in the form of either a common factor model or a spatial process. We estimate a global measure of income elasticity using all countries in the sample, and for sub-groups of countries, depending on their geo-political area and income. Our findings suggest that at the global level, health care is a necessity rather than a luxury. However, results vary greatly depending on the sub-sample analysed. Our findings seem to suggest that size of income elasticity depends on the position of different countries in the global income distribution, with poorer countries showing higher elasticity.

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Health Economics, 2016

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/Department of Economics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Health Economics

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Wiley

issn

1057-9230

eissn

1099-1050

Acceptance date

2016-08-24

Available date

2017-09-29

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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3424/abstract

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en

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