ensure the available information is exploited. To demonstrate its application, data on mortality following hospital treatment … in hospital costs by 100 to increase the hazard of dying, i.e. mortality, by 0.43%. The negative association between …In this paper, we propose a methodological approach to measure the relationship between hospital costs and health …

the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …

In this paper we investigate the existence of a two-tier medical system in the German acute care hospital sector using … data from a survey of 483 German hospitals. The focus of our analysis lies on the impact of hospital concentration on the … probability of discrimination of patients with different health insurances in regard to the access to medical services. Accounting …

provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

-to-death (TTD) effects on Long Term Care. We also account for the problem that mortality, and therefore TTD, are themselves …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …

paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the … duration model developed in this paper is a useful tool when analyzing a wide-range of single-spell durations where individual …