We investigate health and aging before and after retirement for specific occupational groups. We use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and construct a frailty index for elderly men and women from 10 … used classification, workers from the first (low status) group display more health deficits at any age and accumulate …

examine spillover effects of a rise on LTC expenditure on health care expenditures (HCE) and the economy (GDP). Our estimates … that such expenditures rise exerts large spillover effects on health spending components. We find that a 1% increase in … spending over HCE is mainly driven by a reduction in inpatient and medicine expenditures, exhibiting large country …

expenditures, a causal link is difficult to prove. This paper uses a unique and representative survey of Swiss voters of all age … would rather prefer to spend public resources on health and social security than on education. Furthermore the paper shows … being politically more conservative and in general less inclined to pay for expenditures in the public sector as a whole …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …

This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while …

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 …

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 …

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 …