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The Health Economy and Health Insurance Research in the JRI
Author(s) -
Santerre Rexford E.,
Hilliard James I.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
risk management and insurance review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1540-6296
pISSN - 1098-1616
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6296.2009.01154.x
Subject(s) - actuarial science , health insurance , margin (machine learning) , health care , empirical research , business , economics , demographic economics , economic growth , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , computer science
College professors typically expend a considerable amount of time, energy, and effort on academic research. But only one study to date has demonstrated the societal benefit of such research by showing that the content of academic research responds to real‐world problems. This article adds to this scant literature by investigating empirically if the prevalence of health insurance articles in the Journal of Risk and Insurance ( JRI ) can be explained by the state of the health economy. According to the findings, both the uninsured rate and health care spending share are directly related to the percentage of health insurance articles published in the JRI . Thus, the empirical results suggest that the research decisions of insurance economists are influenced at the margin by real‐world problems.