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We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes are given total exemption from cost-sharing for health services consumption. Since the...
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percent lower healthcare costs and mortality rates, depending on age groups and type of CAM. The lower costs result from fewer … used containing quarterly information on healthcare costs (care by general practitioner (GP), hospital care, pharmaceutical … neighborhood specific fixed effects at a highly detailed level, the lower costs and longer lives are unlikely to be related to …
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mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …
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overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final …
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admissions and opioid-related mortality among the Medicare-ineligible population, implying meaningful spillovers to individuals …
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support for his claims about the costs of the current system. He asserts that Epstein never assesses the possible benefits of …
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This paper offers an integrated view of the relationships between health spending, medical innovation, health status, growth and welfare. Health spending triggers technological progress, which is a potential source of better outcomes in terms of longevity and quality of life, a direct source of...
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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 …
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We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural...
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In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …. Evidence from the Variance Decomposition Analysis shows that, almost 6% of future fluctuations in mortality rate are due to …
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