Health Care Use, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure, and Macroeconomic Conditions during the Great Recession

Health Care Use, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure, and Macroeconomic Conditions During the Great Recession

We study how macroeconomic conditions during the Great Recession affected health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures of American households. We use two data sources: the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); each has its own advantages. The CE contains quarterly frequency variables, and the SIPP provides panel data at the individ...

Out-of-Pocket Payments, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty Among Households in Nigeria 2010

Background There is high reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments as a means of financing health system in Nigeria. OOP health payments can make households face catastrophe and become impoverished. The study aims to examine the financial burden of OOP health payments among households in Nigeria.   Methods Secondary data from the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey (HNLSS) of 2009/2...

Out-of-pocket health care costs.

Macroeconomic Experiences and Expectations: A Perspective on the Great Recession∗

Life-time experiences shape macroeconomic expectations. Young people, endowed a small experience set, are particularly prone to rely on very recent data when forming expectations. I illustrate these patterns with micro survey data on inflation, stock return, and house price appreciation expectations. In the case of asset return expectations, the tendency to extrapolate from recent data makes as...

Food expenditure and nutritional quality over the Great Recession