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 …

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 …

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 …

receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …Medical technological progress has been shown to be the main driver of health care costs. A key policy question is … whether new treatment options are worth the additional costs. In this paper we assess the causal effect of percutaneous …

We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in … with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality …