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 …

healthcare utilization and health outcomes among non-COVID–19 patients. Using monthly panel data of nationally representative …-of-pocket medical costs, and perceived health. At its peak, doctor visits decreased by 30% and out-of-pocket medical spending decreased …-reported health and sleep quality, COVID–19 increased depressive symptoms by 4%. We argue that it is imperative to monitor COVID–19's …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle … episodes, we show that investing in community-based healthcare, which relied on less-specialized health workers, led to a more …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …

causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …

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 …

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on … health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … also tests whether in the long-run countries tend to achieve similar levels of health outcomes. Our results show that …