Research AssociateThe Dartmouth Institute for Health
Jonathan, a research associate at IFS, is Research Professor in economics at Dartmouth College and a professor in Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. Jonathan's interests include measuring productivity and efficiency in health care, and the savings behavior of retirees. He is also the Economics of Aging Program Director at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Education
PhD Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983
MA Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
BS (Magna cum laude) Political Science and with Highest Honors in Economics, University of Rochester, 1977
We use data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to document the distribution of out-of-pocket medical spending among individuals aged 55 and over in the US. The HRS data permit us to examine out-of-pocket spending close to the end of life and to analyse the components of spending in more detail than has been done in previous studies.