Aging, Health and Aggregate Medical Care Spending in France

Michel Grignon (grignon@mcmaster.ca)

Department of Economics Working Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: Even though institutions rather than ageing influence medical expenditure at the aggregate level, measuring the expected impact of changes in need (age and health status) on expenditure in a given national health care system allows one to assess how institutions allocate resources across ages. I attempt such a decomposition of the variation of medical expenditure between need, socio- economic circumstances and technology in the case of France, using a unique data set at the individual level. I use morbidity as an indicator of health and test for endogeneity of health to expenditure, as well as for temporal stability of the relationship between health and medical care.

Keywords: aging; health care spending; France; health status. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2005-08
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