the supply of physicians reduce infant mortality and mortality from common childhood diseases. Using a semiparametric …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

percent of mean income. In this paper we use economic theory to determine the relation between the appropriate make …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security … system. We find that mortality risk, when negatively correlated with entitlements, significantly lowers subjects’ willingness …

expectancy uses a Bayesian Model Ensemble approach to stochastic mortality modelling to generate forecasts of intergenerationally …

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … mortality effects due to changes in physician density. One additional physician per 1,000 of population reduces infant mortality …

condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …