Is there empirical evidence for decreasing returns to scale in a health capital model?

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1080-1100

  Galama, Titus J ^a   Hullegie, Patrick ^b,c   Meijer, Erik ^a   Outcault, Sarah ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Grossman model; health investment; life cycle model; optimal control

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GROSSMAN MODEL; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; INVESTMENT; MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864655211     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.2843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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