Population ageing, taxation, pensions and health costs, CHERE Working Paper 2007/10



The lifecycle demand for health insurance is, in contrast to female labour supply and
household saving, complicated by the rise in health risk with age. Average female
hours are at their highest level in phase 1 of the lifecycle, however the health risk of
the household is at its lowest point in this phase, and so the demand for health
insurance is low in phase 1. In the later phases, the profiles for private health
insurance tend to converge, with both rising significantly with age, as we would
expect. Although rising health risk is obviously an important determinant of the shape
of the profiles over the lifecycle, nevertheless it is evident that households with a
higher female labour supply are more likely to purchase private insurance and to
spend more on fees.
31

Figure 6a: % private health insurance

All h H1

H2

31 This is consistent with the finding of Doiron et al. (2007) that personal income effects are stronger
than other household income on the purchase of private health insurance, and that the effects of
personal income are stronger for women than for men.

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