论文标题
家庭和个人经济对不同健康冲击的反应：医疗创新的作用
Household and individual economic responses to different health shocks: The role of medical innovations
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论文摘要
这项研究提供了有关医疗保健减轻各种健康冲击对个人和更广泛家庭的经济后果程度的新证据。为了获得因果关系，我关注医学科学发现的作用，并利用瑞典独特的行政数据的纵向维度。结果表明，医疗创新极大地减轻了个人冲击的负面经济后果，并向亲戚造成溢出。这种缓解作用在预后中是高度异质的。这些结果表明，医疗创新大大减轻了福利成本的负担，但会产生收入不平等。
This study provides new evidence regarding the extent to which medical care mitigates the economic consequences of various health shocks for the individual and a wider family. To obtain causal effects, I focus on the role of medical scientific discoveries and leverage the longitudinal dimension of unique administrative data for Sweden. The results indicate that medical innovations strongly mitigate the negative economic consequences of a health shock for the individual and create spillovers to relatives. Such mitigating effects are highly heterogeneous across prognoses. These results suggest that medical innovation substantially reduces the burden of welfare costs yet produces income inequalities.
