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Die Reform des Risikostrukturausgleichs : eine Zwischenbilanz
Göpffarth, Dirk - 2004
Das Gesetz zur Reform des Risikostrukturausgleichs in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung aus dem Jahr 2001 umfasste zwei kurzfristige Maßnahmen, um den Risikostrukturausgleich stärker zu fokussieren: Der "Risikopool" als solidarische Finanzierung besonders aufwändiger Leistungsfälle und...
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Follow your Heart: Survival Chances and Costs after Heart Attacks - An Instrumental Variable Approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310791
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Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks - An instrumental variable approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310801
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Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks - An instrumental variable approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382725
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Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks - An instrumental variable approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316321
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Does stress shorten your life? Evidence from parental bereavement
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2019
This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143512
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Patients whose GP knows complementary medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer
Kooreman, Peter; Baars, Erik W. - 2011
percent lower healthcare costs and mortality rates, depending on age groups and type of CAM. The lower costs result from fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308090
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A theory of health investment under competing mortality risks
Chang, Fwu-ranq - 2002
In this paper we present a theory of health investment when there are multiple causes of death. Since there are several risks competing for one's life, the health investments in avoiding different causes of death are not independent in general. We analyze the optimal investment rules and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409040
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Conjugal Bereavement Effects on Health and Mortality at Advanced Ages
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2007
causal effects on the health and mortality of the survivor. We estimate the model using a longitudinal survey that traces … takes account of selectivity in partners' mortality and health evolution. We find strong instantaneous effects of … bereavement on mortality and on certain aspects of health. Individuals lose on average 12% of residual life expectancy after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778230
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When externalities collide: influenza and pollution
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Neidell, Matthew; Sanders, … - 2021
Influenza and air pollution each pose significant public health risks with large global economic consequences. The common pathways through which each harms health presents an interesting case of compounding risk via interacting externalities. Using instrumental variables based on changing wind...
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