10 Table 21.2 shows GDP/capita and total health care spending per capita for 42 countries (the fi...
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10 Table 21.2 shows GDP/capita and total health care spending per capita for 42 countries
(the fi rst two columns of numbers).
(a) Calculate the means of both variables.
(b) Calculate a regression relating health care spending to GDP/capita.
(c) Using the method discussed in equation (3.10) calculate the income elasticity of health expenditures.
(d) What does your answer to part
(c) indicate about the “share” of GDP/capita going to health? Why?
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The Economics Of Health And Health Care
ISBN: 9781138208049
8th Edition
Authors: Sherman Folland, Allen C. Goodman, Miron Stano
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