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The Impact of Aging on Future Healthcare Expenditure

Steinmann, Lukas; Telser, Harry; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2005

The impact of aging on healthcare expenditure (HCE) has been at the center of a prolonged debate. This paper purports to shed light on several issues. First, it presents new evidence on the relative importance of the two components of HCE that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier...

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points … savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing …

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Will you still want me tomorrow? The dynamics of families' long-term care arrangements

Goeree, Michelle Sovinsky; Stern, Steven; Hiedemann, Bridget - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012

We estimate dynamic models of elder-care arrangements using data from the Assets and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old Survey. We model the use of institutional care, formal home health care, care provided by a child, and care provided by a spouse in the selection of each care arrangement,...

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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: program complementarity and program substitution

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef; Inderbitzin, Lukas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … that extended UI generates program complementarity (increased take-up of UI followed by DI and/or regular retirement …

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Fatal attraction? Access to early retirement and mortality

Kuhn, Andreas; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … find any adverse effect of early retirement on mortality for females. Death causes indicate a significantly higher …

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Do female officers improve law enforcement quality? Effects on crime reporting and domestic violence escalation

Miller, Amalia Rebecca; Segal, Carmit - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014

We study the impact of the integration of women in US policing between the late 1970s and early 1990s on violent crime reporting and domestic violence escalation. Along these two key dimensions, we find that female officers improved police quality. Using crime victimization data, we find that as...

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Copula bivariate probit models: with an application to medical expenditures

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

The bivariate probit model is frequently used for estimating the effect of an endogenous binary regressor (the "treatment") on a binary health outcome variable. This paper discusses simple modifications that maintain the probit assumption for the marginal distributions while introducing...

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Impact of Specialization on Health Outcomes – Evidence from U.S. Cancer Data

Lichtenberg, Frank R.; Schoder, Johannes - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010

There have been many studies of the volume-outcome relationship. In all of these, the unit of analysis is the hospital or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is particularly sensitive to selective referral. Moreover, the...

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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Flat-of-the-Curve Medicine – A New Perspective on the Production of Health

Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...

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