2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Macroeconomic Examination of the Red Herring Hypothesis concerning Health Expenditures
| Project/Area Number |
20730163
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HOSOYA Kei Tohoku Gakuin University, 経済学部, 准教授 (40405890)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 人口の高齢化 / 医療支出 / Red Herring仮説 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project examines the red herring hypothesis concerning population aging and health care expenditures. We construct an original macro level panel dataset covering 30 OECD countries and reveal that tinder several econometric specifications the proxy for population aging shows a positive and highly significant estimate in most cases. By these results, we conclude that red herring hypotheses supported by many micro data analyses have no validity within the present research.
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