receiving only conservative treatment. We relate mortality reduction to the additional costs for this treatment and conclude …Medical technological progress has been shown to be the main driver of health care costs. A key policy question is … whether new treatment options are worth the additional costs. In this paper we assess the causal effect of percutaneous …

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 …

Erhöht der Off-Label-Konsum verschreibungspflichtiger Arzneimittel die Invalidität und die Gesundheitskosten? In dieser …

, and mortality in an event-study setting. Using claims data from a large German statutory health insurance, we find that … patients but performs less diagnostic testing. While we do not find evidence for mortality, our results reveal a substantial … des Gesundheitswesens, Neudiagnosen und die Sterblichkeit ihrer Patienten im Rahmen einer Event-Study. Anhand von …