Incentives of Health Care Expenditure

Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure

The OECD’s most recent projections of the impact of population ageing on public expenditures suggest that health and long term care will account for about half of the increase in age-related social expenditures between 2000 and 2050. Projections of health care spending are subject, however, to more uncertainties than projections of pension expenditure. Making reliable forecasts of the impact of...

DataWatch International Health Care Expenditure Trends: 1987

Cognitive Ability and Retiree Health Care Expenditure

Prior research indicates that retirees with less cognitive ability are at greater financial risk because they have lower incomes yet higher medical expenditures. Linking HRS data to administrative records, we evaluate two hypotheses about why this group spends more on health: (1) they are in worse health; (2) they receive more expensive or less effective care for the same conditions. We find th...

P Erformance Incentives for Health Care Providers

Incentives and Choice in Health Care