population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per-capita HCE over the next decades. …

which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed … studies have been rather mixed. In light of the imminent population ageing in many of these countries it is still being …

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing ( so-called 'red herring' hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …

We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing (so-called "red herring" hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …