An empirical analysis of US and Japanese health insurance using age-period-cohort decomposition

Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 475-489

  Fukuda, Kosei ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age period cohort decomposition; Bayesian cohort model; Health insurance expenditure

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RETIREMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BAYES THEOREM; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RETIREMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248996274     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1179     Document Type: Article

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