This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on … health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … also tests whether in the long-run countries tend to achieve similar levels of health outcomes. Our results show that …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health …), Chile's flagship early-life health and social welfare program, using administrative birth data matched to social benefits … outcomes toward the middle of the distribution of health at birth. We show that the program is efficient when compared to other …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

Most developing countries face shortages of health workers in rural areas. This has profound consequences for health … service delivery, and ultimately for health outcomes. To design policies that rectify these geographic imbalances it is vital … to understand what factors determine health workers' choice to work in rural areas. But empirical analysis of health …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than natives upon their arrival ("healthy immigrant effect"), but their health deteriorates …

When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo … tests" to provide evidence in support of their identification assumption. In general, this exercise targets health … falsification tests. If healthcare infrastructure is limited, when we observe health shocks such as those driven by air pollution …

When a health shock hits a location, the healthcare infrastructure needs to be adjusted to meet the increased demand … consequences of health shocks induced by air pollution in a megacity in the developing world: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using daily data … practice of using health outcomes unrelated to pollution as "placebo tests" in studies on the effects of air pollution might be …