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A comparison between general population mortality and life tables for insurance in Mexico under gender proportion inequality
Ornelas, Arelly; Guillén, Montserrat - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 16 (2013), pp. 47-67
We model the mortality behavior of the general population in Mexico using data from 1990 to 2009 and compare it to the … mortality assumed in the tables used in Mexico for insured lives. We fi a Lee-Carter model, a Renshaw-Haberman model and an Age … Population Council (CONAPO). We also fit a Brass-type relational model to compare gaps between general population mortality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212516
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Convergence of the health status at the local level : empirical evidence from Austria
Gächter, Martin; Theurl, Engelbert - 2010
whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … geographical subunits (local communities) converged/diverged in the time period 1969 - 2004 in Austria. We use age standardized … mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344869
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Returns to childbirth technologies : evidence from preterm births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228781
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229929
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2014
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347869
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Heterogeneous effects of medical interventions on the health of low-risk newborns
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2016
We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The Netherlands creates large discontinuities in medical treatments at gestational week 37. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find no health benefits from additional treatments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455287
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520625
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Selective-referral and unobserved patient heterogeneity : bias in the volume-outcome relationship
Hentschker, Corinna; Mennicken, Roman - 2014
This paper examines the causal effect of the experience of a hospital with treating hip fractures (volume) on treatment outcome for patients. A full sample of administrative data from Germany for the year 2007 is used. We apply an instrumental variable approach to eliminate endogeneity concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437485
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166761
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D.H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822103