Analyzing the asymmetric effect of disaggregated health expenditures on economic growth

ERDOĞAN S., Erdogan E. S.

Quality and Quantity, cilt.57, sa.3, ss.2673-2686, 2023 (Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 57 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11135-022-01487-6
  • Dergi Adı: Quality and Quantity
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ABI/INFORM, Index Islamicus, Political Science Complete, Psycinfo, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2673-2686
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Asymmetric causality, Economic development, Health economics, Health expenditures, Out-of-pocket health expenditures
  • Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Even though health expenditures are one of the significant determinants of accumulation of human capital and economic growth, researchers have paid less attention to unveiling interactions between health care expenditures and economic performance. The main objective of this study is to investigate disaggregated health care expenditures and economic growth nexus in Türkiye from 1979 to 2019 by using an asymmetric causality approach. The main empirical findings could be briefly summed up as follows: there exist asymmetric causal effects running from total health expenditures, out-of-pocket health expenditures and voluntary health expenditures to economic growth, while there is no asymmetric causal effect from compulsory health expenditures to economic growth. The policy inferences of empirical results for enhancing the productivity of health expenditures are stated in the body of the paper.