- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

We study the dependence of health insurance availability of near-elderly inpatients in the United States with respect …

While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper …

In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious … correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first … contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health …

the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998 … around £116bn (10% of GDP) which is about equal to UK investment in tangible assets. Of the £127bn expenditure, (in …