TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lusardi,Annamaria
AU  - Schneider,Daniel J.
AU  - Tufano,Peter
TI  - The economic crisis and medical care usage
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15843
PY  - 2010
Y2  - March 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15843
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15843.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Annamaria Lusardi
The George Washington University
School of Business
2201 G Street, NW
Duques Hall, Suite 450E
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: 202-994-8410
E-Mail: alusardi@gwu.edu

Daniel J. Schneider
Princeton University
Department of Sociology
Office of Population Research
Princeton, NJ 08544
E-Mail: djschnei@princeton.edu

Peter Tufano
Peter Moores Dean
University of Oxford
Saïd Business School
Park End Street
Oxford OX1 1HP UK
Tel: +1 44(0) 1865 288 812
E-Mail: peter.tufano@sbs.ox.ac.uk
AB  - We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals’ usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health care systems. At the national level, reductions in medical care are related to the degree to which individuals must pay for it, and within countries are strongly associated with exogenous shocks to wealth and employment
ER  -