Arbeitspapier

Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are estimated. Difference-in-difference mean and 80th percentile regressions examine budget shares by low-income and high-income households before and after the introduction of provincial prescription drug programs. The evidence is consistent with the view that unlike senior prescription drug subsidies, nonsenior prescription drug subsidies are probably more redistributive than an equal-cost proportional income transfer.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 695

Classification
Wirtschaft
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Subject
prescription drug benefits
incidence
Drogenkonsum
Verbraucherausgaben
Drogenpolitik
Subvention
Schätzung
Kanada

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Alan, Sule
Crossley, Thomas F.
Grootendorst, Paul
Veall, Michael R.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2003

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Alan, Sule
  • Crossley, Thomas F.
  • Grootendorst, Paul
  • Veall, Michael R.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2003

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