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"More than one red herring"? : heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation

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...

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Time-inconsistent health behavior and its impact on aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2019

We integrate time-inconsistent decision making due to hyperbolic discounting into a gerontologically founded life cycle model with endogenous aging and longevity. Individuals can slow down aging and postpone death by health investments and by reducing unhealthy consumption, conceptualized as...

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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

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Demand-side determinants of rising hospital admissions in Germany : the role of ageing

Krämer, Jonas; Schreyögg, Jonas - In: The European journal of health economics : HEPAC ; … 20 (2019) 5, pp. 715-728

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Looking into the black box of "medical progress" : rising health expenditures by illness type and age

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021

There is agreement among health economists that on the whole medical innovation causes health care expenditures (HCE) to rise. This paper analyzes for which diagnoses and in which age groups HCE per patient have grown significantly faster than average HCE. We distinguish decedents (patients in...

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Looking into the black box of "medical progress" : rising health expenditures by illness type and age

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2021

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The future of the elderly population health status : filling a nnowledge gap

Atella, Vincenzo; Belotti, Federico; Daejung, Kim; … - 2020 - This draft: June 18, 2020

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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

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Adjusting Government Policies for Age Inflation

Shoven, John B. - 2010

remaining life expectancy and lower mortality risk relative to earlier time periods due to improvements in mortality. We examine … to determine what eligibility ages would be today and in 2050 if adjustments for mortality improvement were taken into … approximately 0.15 years annually. Failure to adjust for mortality improvement implies the percent of the population eligible to …

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Proximity to death and health care expenditure increase revisited : a 15-year panel analysis of elderly persons

Wyl, Viktor von - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 9, pp. 1-16

and mortality information, HCE growth was analyzed in Swiss mandatory health insurance for the years 1996 to 2011 and … understanding of shifts in chronic disease prevalence with rising age, as well as associated HCE and survival impacts of treatment …

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