An assessment of health-care expenditures within and across racial and ethnic groups

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Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey and the Consumer Expenditure Survey were examined to determine the nature of health care financing distribution across families based on income, race and ethnicity. Tax-based financing is also considered as an alternative to premium replacements. It is shown that premium affordability, financing system equity and universal coverage are hampered by restriction and uncertainty of subsidies.

Finance, Medical care, Demographic aspects, Health insurance, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs

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The allocation of resources in intergenerational households: adult children and their elderly parents

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Resource allocation in intergenerational households is examined using new data from the Survey of Assets and Health Dynamics. Results reveal that the design and enforcement of family care policies should consider the mechanisms of intrahousehold resource allocation. Regression results prove strongly that intergenerational household resource allocation contradicts the resource pooling hypothesis implied by the common-preference model.

Management, Family policy, Households, Resource allocation

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