Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
We study the differential impacts of public and private sources of health spending on health outcomes using a triple difference approach. We find that private health spending has on average a higher health-promoting effect than public health spending. This result is robust with respect to the choice of outcome measure and covariates in the regression and driven primarily by the countries with ineffective governments. Once we restrict our sample to countries with effective governments, private health spending is no better than public health spending for improving the health outcome.
Keywords
Child mortality rate, Life expectancy at birth, Health spending, Government effectiveness, Triple difference.
Discipline
Health Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
First Page
1
Last Page
39
Publisher
SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series, No. 13-2017
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
FUJII, Tomoki.
Sources of health financing and health outcomes: A panel data analysis. (2017). 1-39.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2094
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Comments
Published in Health Economics (2018) 27 (12), 1996-2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3817