Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20642
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 695
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are estimated. Difference-in-difference mean and 80th percentile regressions examine budget shares by low-income and high-income households before and after the introduction of provincial prescription drug programs. The evidence is consistent with the view that unlike senior prescription drug subsidies, nonsenior prescription drug subsidies are probably more redistributive than an equal-cost proportional income transfer.
Subjects: 
prescription drug benefits
incidence
JEL: 
J42
I18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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