Swedish municipalities for the period 1993-2004. Public health care expenditure was found to have no statistically significant …

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 …

variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns due to reverse causality and unobserved patient heterogeneity. As …

geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the …, state-level mortality has become increasingly correlated with state-level income; in 1992 income explained only 3 percent of …