Anne A. Scitovsky

American health economist

Born

Anne Aickelin

(1915-04-17)April 17, 1915

Ludwigshafen, Germany

DiedJanuary 6, 2012(2012-01-06) (aged 96)

California

CitizenshipUnited States

AlmamaterBarnard College
Columbia University

Anne A. Scitovsky
Born	Anne Aickelin (1915-04-17)April 17, 1915 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Died	January 6, 2012(2012-01-06) (aged 96) California
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Barnard College Columbia University
Spouse	Tibor Scitovsky (divorced)
Scientific career
Fields	Health economics
Institutions	Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Anne Aickelin Scitovsky^[1] (April 17, 1915 – January 16, 2012) was an American health economist. She was associated with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for most of her career and was a member of the National Academy of Medicine.^[2]

Scitovsky was born in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on April 17, 1915, and emigrated to the United States when she was 15 with her family.^[3] She earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1937 and master's degree from Columbia University in 1941.^[4] During World War II, she worked at the Social Security Administration with Selma Mushkin, an early pioneer in the field of health economics. During the 1950s and 60s, she was a homemaker and spent time raising her daughter.

In 1963, Scitovsky was invited to join the Palo Alto Medical Foundation to develop a program on health economics. She remained with the institute for the next 30 years.^[3] Her research has focused on the changing medical costs of the elderly and people with aids, allowing her to estimate the impact of the changes in technology on medical costs.^[5] She also published studies showing that demand for healthcare is influenced by what people have to pay for it long before the RAND Corporation launched its health insurance study.^[6]

In 1979, Scitovsky was appointed by Jimmy Carter as one of the 11 members of the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.^[7]

In 1980, Scitovsky was elected a member of the Institute Of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.^[8]

Personal life

Scitovsky was married to economist Tibor Scitovsky.^[9] She died on January 16, 2012, in California.^[3]

References

↑ Mushkin, Selma J.; Small, Leila Nancy; Scitovsky, Anne A. (1946). Social Insurance Financing in Relation to Consumer Income and Expenditures. Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board, Bureau of Research and Statistics. hdl:2027/mdp.39015077748682. OCLC 572257000.^{[page needed]}^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Scitovsky, Anne A. (1994). "'The High Cost of Dying' Revisited". The Milbank Quarterly. 72 (4): 561–591. doi:10.2307/3350356. JSTOR 3350356. PMID 7997219.^{[non-primary source needed]}
1 2 3 "Anne Scitovsky Obituary". Legacy.com. San Francisco Chronicle. February 2012.
↑ "Our Lab". Barnard Year of Science. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
↑ Scitovsky, Anne A. (January 1988). "The Economic Impact of AIDS in the United States". Health Affairs. 7 (4): 32–45. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.7.4.32. PMID 3147234.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Scitovsky, Anne A; Snyder, Nelda M (June 1972). "Effect of Coinsurance on Use of Physician Services" (PDF). Social Security Bulletin. 35 (6): 3–19. ProQuest 1310468517.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ "President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Appointment of the Membership and Nomination of the Chairman". The American Presidency Project. July 18, 1979.
↑ "Anne A. Scitovsky, M.A." National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved August 21, 2022.
↑ Di Giovinazzo, Viviana (December 2022). "The cultural and aesthetic roots of The Joyless Economy". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 44 (4): 556–578. doi:10.1017/S1053837221000493. S2CID 253528613.

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