Baal, Pieter H. van; Wong, Albert - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 6, pp. 876-887
Although the effect of time to death (TTD) on health care expenditures (HCE) has been investigated using individual level data, the most profound implications of TTD have been for the forecasting of macro-level HCE. Here we estimate the TTD model using macro-level data from the Netherlands...