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Follow your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks - An Instrumental Variable Approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2014
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on long-term inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940069
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Follow your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks - An Instrumental Variable Approach
Schober, Thomas; Sanwald, Alice - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2014
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075754
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Follow your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks - An Instrumental Variable Approach
Schober, Thomas; Sanwald, Alice - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2014
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects … in relative terms for patients below the age of 65. We do not find significant effects on longterm inpatient costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075760
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Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884122
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959595
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2012
in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684817
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries
Jusot, Florence; Kunst, Anton E.; Leinsalu, Mall; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707063
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Selective-referral and Unobserved Patient Heterogeneity – Bias in the Volume-outcome Relationship
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100004
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556956
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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Meltem Daysal, N.; Trandafir, M.; van Ewijk, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012
substantial reductions in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090342