A cluster analysis on income elasticity variations and US pharmaceutical expenditures

Christine Huttin

Applied Economics, 2000, vol. 32, issue 10, 1241-1247

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between household income and outpatient prescribed medicines in the USA based on a sample of 2872 privately insured patients, from the 1987 NMES data set. The analysis is performed on regional typologies of different socioeconomic profiles of patients. Only a few groups show positive income elasticity.

Date: 2000
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