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Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts / John R. Moran, Kosali Ilayperuma Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moran, John R.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11068.
- NBER working paper series no. w11068
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- We use exogenous variation in Social Security payments created by the Social Security benefits notch to estimate how retirees' use of prescription medications responds to changes in their incomes. In contrast to estimates obtained using ordinary least squares, instrumental variables estimates based on the notch suggest that lower-income retirees exhibit considerable income sensitivity in their use of prescription drugs. Our estimates are potentially useful for thinking about the health care usage implications of any changes in transfer payments to the elderly that may occur in the future, and for evaluating the benefits of the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug benefit.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2005.
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