For each quintile, the SHS captures household autonomous expenditure, marginal propensity to consume, and real disposable income.
The study of Groeneveld et al. [ 19] analyzed Medicare patients given an ICD prophylactically and found increases in both survival and expenditure compared with propensity score-matched elderly patients who did not receive an ICD.
92 Subsequent studies revealed that this greater SPA was associated with greater energy expenditure, 92 a lower propensity to gain fat mass throughout development, maturation, and aging, 90 and maintenance of higher SPA levels after high-fat diet feeding.
This study used Taiwan National Health Insurance Program reimbursement claims to investigate postoperative complications, 30-day mortality, length of hospital stay, and medical expenditures after adjustment by propensity score-matched pair method in patients with diabetes undergoing noncardiac surgeries.
Results of propensity analyses for all expenditure, prescription/supply, and gap threshold models for all five sub-samples were consistent with the reported results.
Because households divide their incomes between consumption expenditures and saving, the sum of the propensity to consume and the propensity to save will always equal one.
The impact of these various expenditures is a function of the propensity to consume wealth locally.
(11) Household living standard: For countries like China, where there is a culture of a high rate of saving money (53% of total income)[ 19], non-essential expenditure is likely to be distorted by this propensity to save, hence household consumption expenditure is considered as not a good proxy of household economic status[ 20, 21].
For the year of enrolment, we assumed that, on account of propensity score matching, the expected health expenditures prior to enrolment did not differ systematically between the participant and the control subject.
