Gender discrimination in health-care expenditure: An analysis across the age-groups with special focus on the elderly.

Social Science & Medicine
Bidisha Mondal, Jay Dev Dubey

Abstract

This study aims to understand how much of the gender gap in hospitalization expenditure is explained by different socio-economic, demographic and health-care related factors across the age-groups with a particular focus on the elderly. The unexplained part of the gap (the coefficient effect) is assumed to arise purely due to gender bias. Gender inequality in health-care expenses has been well-documented particularly in case of developing countries and also for India separately. The current study contributes to the existing knowledge by analyzing the gender gap across the age-groups and by bringing to notice how the severity of gender disparity and the importance of different determinants vary across the age-groups. Using the 71st Social Consumption: Health Survey of NSSO, conducted during January to June in 2014, the study finds that on overall the coefficient effect comprises around 50% of the total gender gap, indicating large gender bias in hospitalization expenses. Also a large part of the endowment effect (the explained part) is suggestive of an implicit form of gender discrimination as the differences in choices between men and women influencing hospitalization expenses like the choice between public and private health-ca...Continue Reading

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