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We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …
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-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …-treatment reductions in either infant or child mortality. …
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This paper analyses the impact of health, pension systems and longevity on savings. It uses a simple life-cycle model embodying social transfers (health care and pension expenditures) and changes in longevity to determine the level of household savings. From this model, we derived an econometric...
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This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual's mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in … health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …
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We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …
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ABSTRACT/SYNOPSIS. Medicine is technologically dynamic but fiscally inertial. Major change in the health sector takes time. Responses to macroeconomic shocks are subject to lags of varying lengths, from several years to many decades. There may also be feedback and reverse causality, as when...
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The ageing process in OECD countries calls for a better understanding of the future disease prevalence, life expectancy and patterns of inequalities in health outcomes. In this paper we present the results obtained from several dynamic microsimulation models of the Future Elderly Model (FEM)...
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Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...
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