or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is …

A recent debate in the medical literature has arisen around the mortality effects of obesity. Whereas it has been … undermines the notion that economic growth comes with health warnings. We revisit this debate going over the mortality effects of … when controlling for smoking and the long-term effects of obesity. -- Obesity ; longitudinal data ; mortality ; smoking …

categories and estimate a zip codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates …, age, and probability of PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among …-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones die en route) and a higher probability of immediate …

- the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that these results are not driven by …. -- uninsurance ; spillovers ; heart attack mortality ; hospitals …