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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 …
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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
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
In this paper we empirically study the relationship between education attainment and Body Mass Index (BMI), using as theoretical reference an energy balance model. Our data consist of individual level data from eight waves of the Italian survey on life-styles. We use Quantile Regression (QR)...
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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...
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in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …
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in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …
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the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …
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. Total mortality rates, grouped into four causes of death, were used as proxies for health, and the number of general … that allow for time persistence in mortality rates, incorporate municipal fixed effects, and treat both the number and … relationship between mortality and the number of GPs per capita found in most previous studies. However, there is a significant …
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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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