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 …

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 …

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public …

would rather prefer to spend public resources on health and social security than on education. Furthermore the paper shows … spending on education at the local, state-wide or national level, trying to control for other exogenous effects. Although this … groups. The analysis shows that elderly people present a clear tendency to be less willing to spend money on education. They …

In this paper we study the quantitative macroeconomic effects of public education spending in USA for the post … education spending is justified by externalities in human capital. Our base calibration, based on moderate sized human capital … externalities, suggests that public spending on education is both growth and welfare promoting. However, given that public education …

fertility. The model is a three-period CGE framework where the design of the education system and effects on factor prices are … optimal if the education system has a fixed benefit rate. This design of education and pension systems assures that …

One of the most important controversies in health economics concerns the question whether the imminent aging of the … population in most OECD countries will place an additional burden on the tax payers who finance public health care systems …. Proponents of the "red-herring hypothesis" argue that this is not the case because most of the correlation of age and health care …

endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … measles, influenza and bronchitis. To investigate diminishing returns to health care provision, we develop a semiparametric …

which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed … positive correlation between age and health care expenditures (HCE) in cross-sectional data is exclusively due to the facts … discussed whether unfunded social health insurance systems will be sustainable, in particular as long as they promise to provide …