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The impact of technology diffusion in health care markets : evidence from heart attack treatment
Hentschker, Corinna; Wübker, Ansgar - 2016
transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a major new heart attack treatment, on mortality. We use a full sample of administrative … suggest a 4.5 percentage point mortality reduction for patients who have access to this new treatment compared to patients … receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …
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Medical care within an OLG economy with realistic demography
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2016
mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …
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Richard Epstein's Mortal Peril : Ebenezer Scrooge Meets the American Health Care System
Greely, Henry T. - 1999
Professor Henry Greely views Richard Epstein's Mortal Peril as a provocative, but ultimately failed work. It provokes with both its sharp analysis and its pointed language. Yet it fails in its goal of demonstrating the useful application of Epstein's first principles to the problems of access to...
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Medical progress, demand for health care, and economic performance
Frankovic, Ivan; Kuhn, Michael; Wrzaczek, Stefan - 2017
We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781886
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …
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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis
Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011
After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - In: Health Policy 114 (2014) 1, pp. 41–53
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis
Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011
After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302741
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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across the very low birth weight (VLBW) cutoff. Using administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm...
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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