Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2016

DOI

10.1002/hec.3446

Publication Title

Health Economics

Pages

1-5

Abstract

We examine how inputs for health production, in particular, medical care and health-enhancing time, are combined to improve health. The estimated elasticity of substitution from a constant elasticity of substitution production function is significantly less than one for the working-age population, rejecting the unit elasticity of substitution used in previous studies.

Comments

This is the author's working version (pre-print) of an article published in Health Economics:

Du, J., & Yagihashi, T. (2016). Goods–Time Elasticity of Substitution in Health Production. Health Economics, 1-5. doi:10.1002/hec.3446.

Final published version available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.3446


ORCID

0000-0001-9916-6008 (Yagihashi)

Original Publication Citation

Du, J., & Yagihashi, T. (2016). Goods–time elasticity of substitution in health production. Health Economics, 1-5. doi:10.1002/hec.3446

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