New Healthcare Economics Study Findings Have Been Reported by Researchers at University of New South Wales (Family formation and the demand for health insurance)

2020 JAN 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Economics - Healthcare Economics. According to news reporting originating in Sydney, Australia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “We study how demand for health insurance responds to family formation using a unique panel of young Australian women. Our data allow us to simultaneously control for the influence of state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity and detailed information on children and child aspirations.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of New South Wales, “We find evidence that women purchase insurance in preparation for pregnancy but then transition out of insurance once they have finished family building. Children have a large, negative impact on demand for insurance, although this effect is smaller for those on higher incomes. We also find that state dependence has a large impact on insurance demand.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our results are robust to a variety of alternative modelling strategies.”

For more information on this research see: Family formation and the demand for health insurance. Health Economics, 2020;():. Health Economics can be contacted at: John Wiley & Sons LTD, the Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester PO19 8SQ, W Sussex, England. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Health Economics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1050)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting D. Doiron, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4000. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Health Economics can be contacted at: John Wiley & Sons LTD, the Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester PO19 8SQ, W Sussex, England.

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