Working Paper: NBER ID: w22562
Authors: Marguerite Burns; John Mullahy
Abstract: The purposes of this paper are to describe some conceptual and empirical foundations of "healthy-time" measures of health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production framework, surveys some of the healthy-time outcome/quality measures in use across a variety of contexts and applications, explores how data from the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) might be used to develop ongoing healthy-time measures for U.S. samples, describes an econometric strategy for studying such outcomes, and presents estimates of regression models describing two sets of healthy-time outcome measures obtained from 2011 and 2012 MEPS data.
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JEL Codes: I1
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| increased health capital (I15) | higher number of days alive and out of the hospital (DAOH) (C41) |
| increased prevalence of chronic diseases (I12) | lower number of days alive out of the hospital (I12) |
| older age (J14) | lower number of days alive out of the hospital (I12) |