Objective To provide guidance on selecting the most appropriate price index for adjusting
health expenditures or costs for inflation. Data Sources Major price index series produced by …

As the core health expenditure survey in the United States, the Medical Expenditure Panel
Survey (MEPS) is increasingly being used by statistical agencies to track expenditures by …

Why have health care costs moderated in the last decade? Some have suggested the Great
Recession alone was the cause, but health expenditure growth in the depths of the …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark federal welfare reform that transformed
antipoverty policy—changing an open-ended cash benefit, Aid to Families with Dependent …

This book provides an accessible guide to price index and hedonic techniques, with a focus
on how to best apply these techniques and interpret the resulting measures. One goal of this …

TOTAL HEALTH CARE spending reached 17.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in
2013, and that share is expected to continue to grow signifi cantly, according to the Centers …

Objectives: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) randomized trial identified age differences
in the benefit-risk profile of estrogen-alone (ET) use. The impact of WHI trial on disease …

We would like to thank Ana Aizcorbe, Abe Dunn, Richard Frank, Virginia Henriksen,
participants in the NBER/CRIW conference on modeling health care costs, Tom Selden, and …

The large and growing share of GDP allocated to medical care has prompted greater focus
on producing health statistics that provide more detailed information on the sources of …

There is a consensus that statistical agencies should report medical data by disease rather
than by service. This study computes price indexes that are necessary to deflate nominal …