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Population ageing and health care expenditure : new evidence on the "red herring"

Zweifel, Peter; Felder, Stefan; Werblow, Andreas - 2004

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Sources of U.S. longevity increase, 1960 - 1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000

Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% - from 69,7 to 76,5 years - and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. While life expectancy has tended to increase, there...

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The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses

Compton, Janice - 2018

misleading results because the mortality distribution of husbands and wives overlap substantially. To illustrate, consider a wife …

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The 'Red Herring' after 20 Years : Ageing and Health Care Expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich - 2019

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

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State-Level Healthcare Spending and Health Outcomes : An Application of Spatial Durbin Panel Approach to Mortality

Bose, Srimoyee - 2015

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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - In: The European journal of health economics 22 (2021) 5, pp. 661-667

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Sources of U.S. Longevity Increase, 1960-1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021

Between 1960 and 1997, life expectancy at birth of Americans increased approximately 10% - from 69.7 to 76.5 years - and it has been estimated that the value of life extension during this period nearly equaled the gains in tangible consumption. We investigate whether an aggregate health...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224922

Area Differences in Utilization of Medical Care and Mortality Among U.S. Elderly

Fuchs, Victor R.; McClellan, Mark B.; Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2021

This paper examines 313 U.S. areas for differences in medical care utilization and mortality of whites ages 65-84 in …. Utilization, especially inpatient care, is strongly positively related to mortality. Mortality is positively related to cigarette … populations greater than 500,000. Mortality does not vary with population size, with or without controls. Florida is an outlier …

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The macro-level effect of religiosity on health

Herzer, Dierk - In: Health economics 31 (2022) 6, pp. 993-1011

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The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality : Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population

Skinner, Jonathan S.; Zhou, Weiping - 2021

Has U.S. health care for the elderly become more equitable during the past several decades? When inequality is measured by Medicare expenditures, the answer is yes. During 1987-2001, low income households experienced an increase of 78 percent ($2624) in per capita expenditures, double the...

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