On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Econometric Problems in Estimating the Demand for Health Services
ResearchPublished 1979
Discusses certain methodological problems in the economics literature related to the demand for medical care. There are two principal problems examined: misspecification of how insurance affects demand, and aggregation across services or across individuals. It is shown that in both cases estimates contained in the literature are inconsistent. Where possible, the direction of the inconsistency is obtained a priori. The paper also makes estimates of the magnitude of the inconsistency; the demand elasticities estimated in the economics literature may be overstated by a factor of three or more.
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- Year: 1979
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- Paperback Pages: 49
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- Document Number: R-1149-1-NC
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Newhouse, Joseph P., Charles E. Phelps, and M. Susan Marquis, On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Econometric Problems in Estimating the Demand for Health Services, RAND Corporation, R-1149-1-NC, 1979. As of September 16, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1149-1.html
Newhouse, Joseph P., Charles E. Phelps, and M. Susan Marquis, On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Econometric Problems in Estimating the Demand for Health Services. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1979. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1149-1.html. Also available in print form.
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