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invest less in self-protection as measured by influenza vaccination. This result is driven by high risk individuals such as …
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' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data … willingness to get vaccinated, but these results are less pronounced and less robust. Our results indicate that vaccination … einer hohen Merkmalsreaktanz eine signifikant geringere Bereitschaft zur Impfung zeigen. Sie neigen auch dazu, sich später …
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avoidable mortality from IHD.This is important, as the modernization of the East German health sector included a considerable …
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variation in mortality rates between weekend and weekday admissions. Patients admitted during the weekend exhibit higher in …-hospital mortality rates. We also find signs of premature discharge, as patients with short lengths of stay tend to exhibit higher …
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over a limited time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll …,by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra … compulsory school year reduced mortality. In fact, the mortality reduction is discernible already before the age of 30 and then …
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I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds …-based eligibility thresholds, I demonstrate that retirement can have both mortality-decreasing and mortality-increasing effects … mixed results from the literature I provide evidence that the retirement-mortality nexus is driven by the activity change at …
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I study the impact of old-age assistance on mortality using the introduction of public pensions in the UK in 1909 as a … an event-time design, I show that elderly mortality in England and Wales declined after the pension was introduced. The … estimated mortality decline is economically relevant, more pronounced in counties with a higher share of pensioners and is …
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This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns...
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significant negative relationship between case volume and mortality for complex interventions at the pancreas and oesophagus as …
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This paper examines the effects of hospital case volume on quality of care on the example of intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and hip fracture (HIP). We conduct the analysis on patient level with multiple logistic regression analysis. Quality is measured with a binary variable which...
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