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Regional mortality disparities in Germany : long-term dynamics and possible determinants

Kibele, Eva Ulrike Bianca; Klüsener, Sebastian; … - 2014

While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the … past century marked changes have occurred in the country’s regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the … southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in …

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German east-west mortality difference: two cross-overs driven by smoking

Vogt, Tobias C.; Raalte, Alyson van; Grigoriev, Pavel; … - 2016

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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effectiveness of heart attack treatment in Germany

Hentschker, Corinna; Wübker, Ansgar - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 50, pp. 5531-5545

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Fair long-term care insurance

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2019

The study of optimal long-term care (LTC) social insurance is generally carried out under the utilitarian social criterion, which penalizes individuals who have a lower capacity to convert resources into well-being, such as dependent elderly individuals or prematurely dead individuals. This...

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Premature deaths, accidental bequests and fairness

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017

While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...

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The gift of a lifetime : the hospital, modern medicine, and mortality

Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - 2022

. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …

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