Estimating the Economic Impact of Disease on a Local Economy: The Case of Diabetes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Joselito K. Estrada, Henry Shelton Brown () and Gautam Hazarika

No 35563, 2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the economic impact of wage reductions that people experience from contracting diabetes. Incorporating wage reduction information into an input-output model reveals that as diabetics’ wages decrease by $1.00, production and income in the local economy decline by $0.36 and $0.38, respectively.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005

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