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Convergence of per capita health care expenditures in OECD Countries

Aslan, Alper (2008): Convergence of per capita health care expenditures in OECD Countries. Forthcoming in: Research Journal of International Studies

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Abstract

In this article it is investigated the convergence of health care expenditures per capita in OECD during the 1970–2005 period by applying Lima and Resende (2007) persistence methodology. Departures across countries were evaluated in terms of panel data unit root tests advanced by Im et al. (2003). The evidence illustrated that one cannot reject the null hypothesis of unit root for the (log) of the ratio of health care expenditures of each country relative to a reference unit except average of per capita health expenditures The results, therefore, favour a very strong form of persistence for OECD expenditures inequality.

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