To Spend in Health Care: Is a Luxury?

18 Pages Posted: 28 Feb 2005

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Maximo Rossi

Departamento de Economía, dECON; Universidad de la Republica - Department of Economics

Patricia Triunfo

University of Uruguay

Date Written: August 2004

Abstract

Using data from de Survey of Households Expenditures (1982-1983 and 1994-1995) of the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica we estimates Engel Curves for a series of health expenditure. It is possible to affirm for 1994-1995 that the total expenditure in health care are a luxury good for people from Montevideo. Analyzing some specific components the same characteristic is observed for medications, not being able to reject the hypothesis that the expenditures on IAMC and mobile emergencies are necessary goods.

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Keywords: health care, luxury

JEL Classification: I10, I12

Suggested Citation

Rossi, Maximo and Triunfo, Patricia, To Spend in Health Care: Is a Luxury? (August 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=674621 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.674621

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Patricia Triunfo

University of Uruguay ( email )

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Montevideo 11200, 11200
Uruguay
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