87762 20210902121648.0 doi 10.3390/ijerph17020554 sideral 116072 ART-2020-116072 eng Clemente, Jesús Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6907-8090 Does the Great Recession contribute to the convergence of health care expenditures in the US States? 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper examines whether the Great Recession has altered the disparities of the US regional health care expenditures. We test the null hypothesis of convergence for the US real per capita health expenditure for the period 1980–2014. Our results indicate that the null hypothesis of convergence is clearly rejected for the total sample as well as for the pre-Great Recession period. Thus, no changes are found in this regard. However, we find that the Great Recession has modified the composition of the estimated convergence clubs, offering a much more concentrated picture in 2014 than in 2008, with most of the states included in a big club, and only 5 (Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and Georgia) exhibiting a different pattern of behavior. These two estimated clubs diverge and, consequently, the disparities in the regional health sector have increased info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/ECO2015-65967-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.39 2020 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 41 / 176 = 0.233 2020 Q1 T1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 118 / 273 = 0.432 2020 Q2 T2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 68 / 203 = 0.335 2020 Q2 T2 0.747 2020 Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2020 Q2 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2020 Q2 Pollution 2020 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Lázaro-Alquézar, Angelina Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5513-1567 Montañés, Antonio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5872-631X 4008 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Economía Aplicada 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 17, 2 (2020), 554 [7 pp.] Int. j. environ. res. public health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 1661-7827 901397 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/87762/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 511704 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/87762/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:87762 articulos driver 2021-09-02-09:04:41 ARTICLE