The Role of Policy and Institutions on Health Spending.
This paper investigates the impact of policies and institutions on health expenditures for a large panel of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries for the period of 2000-2010. A set of 20 policy and institutional indicators developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are integrated into a theoretically motivated econometric framework, alongside control variables related to demographic (dependency ratio) and non-demographic (income, prices and technology) drivers of health expenditures per capita. Although a large share of cross-country differences in public health expenditures can be explained by demographic and economic factors (around 71%), cross-country variations in policies and institutions also have a significant influence, explaining most of the remaining difference in public health spending (23%). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
OECD, Paris, France.
Christine
C
de la Maisonneuve
Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Rodrigo
R
Moreno-Serra
OECD, Paris, France.
Fabrice
F
Murtin
OECD, Paris, France.|University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France.
Joaquim
J
Oliveira Martins
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demographic drivers; health expenditures; health institutions; health policy; healthcare; non-demographic drivers