This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … claims data of the German Social Health Insurance. Exploiting the differential timing in the reform implementation across …

in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …

on the unconditional, down-flow grant system in Estonia. In particular the procedure of determining the total sum of …