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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893888
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Health care expenditure and income in the OECD reconsidered : evidence from panel data
Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - 2010
This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003947927
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On the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925549
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The effectiveness of health screening
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Hummer, Michael; Pruckner, … - 2012
Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530136
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Cost-sharing and use of health services in Italy : evidence from a fuzzy regression discontinuity design
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453425
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Physicians and the production of health : returns to health care during the mortality transition
Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022
This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184082
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Mental illness and unhappiness
Layard, Peter R. G.; Chisholm, Dan; Pātil, Wīkrām; … - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190218
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Accounting for the rise of health spending and longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - 2013
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change and the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191296
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The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N.; Popova, Olga - 2020
, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207445
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Taking the CON out of Pennsylvania : did hip and knee replacement patients benefit?
Averett, Susan; Terrizzi, Sabrina; Yang Wang - 2017
Policymakers and the general public have expressed increasing concern over rising health care costs. The Certificate-of-Need (CON) programs began at the federal level in 1974 to stem the increase in costs by limiting hospital expansion and acquisition of equipment. The federal requirement for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709756