2016-09-01
Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
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Health Economics , Volume 25 - Issue 9 p. 1056- 1072
In this paper, we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis and estimate a multistate structural equation model with three states: (i) healthy, (ii) hospitalized, and (iii) death. We use data from a Dutch cohort born around 1940 that links intelligence tests at age 12 years to later-life hospitalization and mortality records. The results indicate that intelligent individuals have a clear survival advantage for most hospital diagnoses, while the remaining disparities across education groups are small and not statistically significant.
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| Organisation | Erasmus School of Economics |
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Bijwaard, G., & van Kippersluis, H. (2016). Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?. In Health Economics (Vol. 25, pp. 1056–1072). doi:10.1002/hec.3356 |
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