@article {Huttin:2000:0003-6846:1241, title = "A cluster analysis on income elasticity variations and US pharmaceutical expenditures", journal = "Applied Economics", parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/raef", publishercode ="routledg", year = "2000", volume = "32", number = "10", publication date ="2000-08-15T00:00:00", pages = "1241-1247", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0003-6846", eissn = "1466-4283", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/raef/2000/00000032/00000010/art00003", doi = "doi:10.1080/000368400404399", author = "Huttin, Christine", abstract = "This paper examines the relationship between household income and outpatient prescribed medicines in the USA based on a sample of 2872 privately insured patients, from the 1987 NMES data set. The analysis is performed on regional typologies of different socioeconomic profiles of patients. Only a few groups show positive income elasticity.", }