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Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Mortality – Evidence from Sweden

Fischer, Martin; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll … using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra … compulsory school year reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 and then …

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The Relationship between Quality and Hospital Case Volume – An Empirical Examination with German Data

Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and hip fracture (HIP). We conduct the analysis on patient level with multiple logistic regression analysis. Quality is measured with a binary variable which...

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Are You Well Prepared for Long-term Care? – Assessing Financial Gaps in Private German Care Provision

Keese, Matthias; Meng, Annika; Schnabel, Reinhold - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

The development of expenditure for care services is one of the most intensively debated topics in public. However, studies calculating financial provision gaps only focus on the macro-level implications for the compulsory care insurance. In contrast, this paper examines the individuals’...

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Selective-referral and Unobserved Patient Heterogeneity – Bias in the Volume-outcome Relationship

Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns...

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Explaining Variations in Breast Cancer Screening Across European Countries

Wübker, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

This paper explores variations in the uptake of breast cancer screening and associated factors influencing utilisation of mammography screening among women aged 50 to 69 years in 13 European countries. We focus on the relative importance of individual (e.g. age, education, etc.) and...

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Altruism Heterogeneity and Quality Competition Among Healthcare Providers

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

New empirical evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in the altruism of healthcare providers. Spurred by this evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare providers supply relatively higher quality levels and...

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Life Expectancy and Mother-Baby Interventions. Evidence from A Historical Trial

Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...

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Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector

Augurzky, Boris; Engel, Dirk; Schmidt, Christoph M.; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper considers the role of ownership form for the financial performance of German acute care hospitals and its development over time.We measure financial performance by a hospital-specific yearly probability of default (PD). Using a panel of hospital data, our models allow for state...

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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of

Schmitz, Hendrik; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

Health Plan Choice Abstract: This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in...

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P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision

Kairies, Nadja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

We investigate the effect of reputational motivation on output in a scenario of overprovision of medical treatment. We assume that physicians differ in their degree of altruism, enjoy being perceived as good but dislike being perceived as greedy. We show that better reputational motivation...

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