hrs: Health-expenditure data

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Health-expenditure data

Description

Data on healthcare utilization and expenditures for adults 50 years and older in the United States, taken from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD). Data was originally used in the paper "On the distribution and dynamics of health care costs" by Eric French and John Bailey Jones, 2004, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 19: 705-721. This dataset is restricted to non-married individuals in the year 2000.

Usage

hrs

Format

hrs

A data frame with 6,052 rows and 14 columns:

age

Age (in years)

assets

Total assets (in dollars); bottom-coded at $20,000

doctor_visits

Number of doctor visits

drug_costs

Drug costs (in dollars)

income

Income (in dollars); bottom-coded at $5,000

hosp_nights

Number of nights spent in hospital

ins_private

1 if insurance is private or employee-provided, 0 otherwise

ins_medicare

1 if insurance is Medicare, 0 otherwise

ins_medicaid

1 if insurance is Medicaid, 0 otherwise

ins_none

1 if no health insurance, 0 otherwise

male

1 if male, 0 otherwise

medical_costs

Total medical costs (in dollars)

nodrug_financial

1 if did not take prescription drugs for financial reasons, 0 otherwise

outofpocket_costs

Total out-of-pocket medical costs (in dollars)

Source

https://journaldata.zbw.eu/dataset/on-the-distribution-and-dynamics-of-health-care-costs

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