Health care expenditures in the United States and five industrialized economies: A pooled time-series cross-section model

Author

• Sandhya K. Shah

Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1994

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Manage, Neela D.

Abstract

This thesis empirically analyzes the determinants of national health care expenditures in the United States and five other industrialized economies. A reduced-form model for national health care expenditures, based upon a partial-adjustment mechanism, is specified as a function of supply and demand factors in interrelated markets in the medical sector and estimated for the United States for the period 1960 to 1990. A pooled model is also estimated for a cross-section of six industrialized economies based upon time series data from 1976 to 1990 for each country. The results suggest that income, technological change, and inflation have a significant impact on national health care expenditures.

Extent

91 p.

Comments

College of Business|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994.|College of Business

Recommended Citation

Shah, Sandhya K., "Health care expenditures in the United States and five industrialized economies: A pooled time-series cross-section model" (1994). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 603.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/603

Identifier

FADT15109

Format

pdf