Estimating the costs of non-medical consumption in life-years gained for economic evaluations

Including the costs of non-medical consumption in life years gained in economic evaluations of medical interventions has been controversial. This paper focuses on the estimation of these costs using Dutch data coming from cross-sectional household surveys consisting of 56,569 observations covering the years 1978–2004. We decomposed the costs of consumption into age, period and cohort effects and modelled the non-linear age and cohort patterns of...