published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38(1), 128-148
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the
Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number
of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric
Engel curves are estimated. Difference-in-difference mean and 80th percentile regressions
examine budget shares by low-income and high-income households before and after the
introduction of provincial prescription drug programs. The evidence is consistent with the
view that unlike senior prescription drug subsidies, nonsenior prescription drug subsidies are
probably more redistributive than an equal-cost proportional income transfer.
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