The Accuracy of Economic Measurement in the Health and Retirement Study

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Forum for Health Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2017-10-11 DOI:10.1515/fhep-2017-0001

Eric French, J. Jones, J. McCauley

引用次数: 12

Abstract

Abstract We assess the quality of the HRS’s measures of out-of-pocket medical spending and health insurance premia, both in the “core interviews” and in the “exit interview” data. We provide detailed evidence on the quality of the HRS insurance premia data, and we compare the HRS exit data to exit data in the MCBS. We document how changes in survey questions, including the introduction of “unfolding brackets,” affect the HRS measures. We document what we believe are errors in the HRS imputations and provide some suggestions for improving the accuracy of some imputed variables. Overall, we find the HRS data to be of high quality. However, we believe that many interesting variables in the HRS are under-utilized because users must perform imputations themselves.

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健康与退休研究中经济计量的准确性

摘要本文通过“核心访谈”和“离职访谈”两种数据，对HRS的自付医疗支出和医疗保险费测量方法的质量进行了评估。我们提供了关于HRS保费数据质量的详细证据，并将HRS退出数据与MCBS中的退出数据进行了比较。我们记录了调查问题的变化，包括“展开括号”的引入，是如何影响HRS测量的。我们记录了我们认为在HRS估算中存在的错误，并为提高一些估算变量的准确性提供了一些建议。总体而言，我们发现HRS数据质量较高。然而，我们认为HRS中许多有趣的变量没有得到充分利用，因为用户必须自己执行估算。

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Forum for Health Economics and Policy Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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1.60

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期刊介绍： Forum for Health Economics & Policy (FHEP) showcases articles in key substantive areas that lie at the intersection of health economics and health policy. The journal uses an innovative structure of forums to promote discourse on the most pressing and timely subjects in health economics and health policy, such as biomedical research and the economy, and aging and medical care costs. Forums are chosen by the Editorial Board to reflect topics where additional research is needed by economists and where the field is advancing rapidly. The journal is edited by Katherine Baicker, David Cutler and Alan Garber of Harvard University, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, Dana Goldman of the University of Southern California and RAND Corporation, Neeraj Sood of the University of Southern California, Anup Malani and Tomas Philipson of University of Chicago, Pinar Karaca Mandic of the　University of Minnesota, and John Romley of the University of Southern California. FHEP is sponsored by the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. A subscription to the journal also includes the proceedings from the National Bureau of Economic Research''s annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research Conference. Topics: Economics, Political economics, Biomedical research and the economy, Aging and medical care costs, Nursing, Cancer studies, Medical treatment, Others related.