کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
961516 929865 2012 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The medical care costs of obesity: An instrumental variables approach
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
هزینه مراقبت های پزشکی چاقی: یک رویکرد ابزاری متغیر
کلمات کلیدی
چاقی؛ خارجی ها؛ هزینه های مراقبت های پزشکی؛ بیمه
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables (IV) to estimate the impact of obesity on medical costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight and to reduce the bias from reporting error in weight. Models are estimated using restricted-use data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2000–2005. The IV model, which exploits genetic variation in weight as a natural experiment, yields estimates of the impact of obesity on medical costs that are considerably higher than the estimates reported in the previous literature. For example, obesity is associated with $656 higher annual medical care costs, but the IV results indicate that obesity raises annual medical costs by $2741 (in 2005 dollars). These results imply that the previous literature has underestimated the medical costs of obesity, resulting in underestimates of the economic rationale for government intervention to reduce obesity-related externalities.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Health Economics - Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 219–230
نویسندگان
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