The economic crisis and medical care usage

  • We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals’ usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health care systems. At the national level, reductions in medical care are related to the degree to which individuals must pay for it, and within countries are strongly associated with exogenous shocks to wealth and employment.

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Author:Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider, Peter Tufano
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-368546
Parent Title (German):Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2010,10
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (2010,10)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2015/02/06
Year of first Publication:2010
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/02/06
Tag:Routine Medical Care; Unemployment; Wealth Losses
HeBIS-PPN:354709364
Institutes:Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht