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The Effect of Dental Insurance on the Use of Dental Care for Older Adults: A Partial Identification Analysis
Author(s) -
Kreider Brent,
Manski Richard J.,
Moeller John,
Pepper John
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.3064
Subject(s) - dental insurance , identification (biology) , dental care , counterfactual conditional , actuarial science , reliability (semiconductor) , health insurance , medicine , gerontology , health care , psychology , economics , family medicine , counterfactual thinking , social psychology , power (physics) , botany , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , economic growth
We evaluate the impact of dental insurance on the use of dental services using a potential outcomes identification framework designed to handle uncertainty created by unknown counterfactuals—that is, the endogenous selection problem—and uncertainty about the reliability of self‐reported insurance status. Using data from the health and retirement study, we estimate that utilization rates of adults older than 50 years would increase from 75% to around 80% under universal dental coverage. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.