Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

In this study, the authors have tried to examine the empirical evidence on the relationship between preventive health … role of preventive health care in boosting the corporate sector's performance and improving the country's economy. Toward … employees in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Preventive health care holds enormous promise for the competitiveness of …

- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both …I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …

We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …

incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …

very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … accommodations with home help and home health care, and living in special accommodations with round-the-clock-care. Our results … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …

Healthcare services are more widespread in Latin America and the Caribbean today than 50 years ago, yet this …, public policy can be driven by factors that are least likely to improve the population's health. …

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 …