TY  - JOUR
TI  - DOES URBANIZATION INDUCE THE HEALTH EXPENDITURES? A DYNAMIC MACRO-PANEL ANALYSIS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
AB  - Fast growing urban population brings some opportunities while it can also causes significant health costs, especiallyin developing countries. This study aims to investigate the possible impact of urbanization on health expenditures in89 developing countries during the period 2006-2015 by using both static and dynamic panel data techniques. FixedEffects (FE) estimator results showed that the health expenditures per capita has a positive relationship with incomeper capita, the share of government expenditures, out -of-pocket payments per capita, the share of population ages 65and above. Furthermore, FE findings revealed that the increased urbanization also induces the healthcare expendituresin developing countries. In addition, dynamic panel estimation method is also applied in the empirical a nalysis toavoid the possible endogeneity problem and to consider the dynamic properties. Thus, Generalised Methods ofMoments (GMM) findings showed that the urbanization leads healthcare expenditures in developing countries.Thereby, GMM results are coherence with the FE findings. Consequently, the empirical results indicate the importanceof urbanization as a determinant of healthcare expenditures. Therefore, developing countries’ policy makers shouldre-consider their urban development policies to prevent from the negative externalities of rapid urbanization.
AU  - Bakirtas, Ibrahim
AU  - CETIN, Mumin Atalay
PY  - 2019
JO  - Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
VL  - 0
IS  - 61
SN  - 2587-005X
SP  - 208
EP  - 222
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/313886
ER  -