Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2020
We study the effect of ageing, defined an extra year of life, on health care utilisation. We disentangle the direct … effect of ageing, from other alternative explanations such as the presence of comorbidities and endogenous time to death (TTD …) that are argued to absorb the effect of ageing ( so-called 'red herring' hypothesis). We exploit individual level end of …