Healthcare

We use data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) to document the medical spending of Americans aged 65 and older.

There is little current information regarding the long-term persistence of health spending in the United States, in particular among the population aged under 65 (pre-Medicare eligibility). We describe and model the extent of persistence over a six-year period (2003–08) using medical and pharmacy claims for over 3 million employees, retirees and dependants derived from the Truven Health MarketScan database.

We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to document the distribution of out-of-pocket medical spending among individuals aged 55 and over in the US. The HRS data permit us to examine out-of-pocket spending close to the end of life and to analyse the components of spending in more detail than has been done in previous studies.

This paper considers the micro-econometric analysis of patients' hospital choice for elective medical procedures when their choice set is pre-selected by a general practitioner (GP).

We propose a Kronecker product structure for large covariance or correlation matrices.

The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees.

Reforms to public services have extended consumer choice by allowing for the entry of private providers. The aim is to generate competitive pressure to improve quality when consumers choose between providers. However, for many services new entrants could also affect whether a consumer demands the service at all. We explore this issue by considering how demand for elective surgery responds following the entry of private providers into the market for publicly funded health care in England.

Early exposure to adversity, such as abuse or neglect, is associated with poorer outcomes across social, education and health domains.

Response to 'The effect of patient age at intervention on risk of implant revision after total replacement of the hip or knee: a population-based cohort study', published in the Lancet

The UK should follow Ontario and reactivate its treasure trove of dormant trials to generate new science through linkage with administrative data. Many groups stand to benefit. For example, drug regulators could encourage linkage of dormant and new trials to administrative data to monitor long term safety of drugs.

This paper extends analyses of association between maternal mental health and infant growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to children through age eight years, and broaden analyses to cognitive and psychosocial outcomes.

This paper investigates how changes in hospital choice sets affect levels of patient demand for elective hospital care.

This paper uses administrative National Health Service (NHS) hospital records to examine key features of public hospital spending in England.