Black, Nicole, Hughes, Robert and Jones, Andrew Michael orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-1785 (2018) The health care costs of childhood obesity in Australia:an instrumental variables approach. Economics and Human Biology. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1570-677X
Abstract
The effect of childhood obesity on medical costs incurred by the Australian Government is estimated using five waves of panel data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, which is linked to public health insurance administrative records from Medicare Australia. Instrumental variables estimators are used to address concerns about measurement error and selection bias. The additional annual medical costs due to overweight and obesity among 6 to 13 year olds is about $43 million (in 2015 AUD). This is driven by a higher utilisation of general practitioner and specialist doctors. The results suggest that the economic consequences of childhood obesity are much larger than previously estimated.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | BMI,Child,Instrumental variable,Medical costs,Obesity,Overweight,Ren |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2018 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2025 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2018.07.003 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ehb.2018.07.003 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133577 |
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