Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2022-10-10
Number: 22-072/V
Author-Name: Jakub Cerveny
Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Long-term returns to local health-care spending

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in-hospital deaths to in-hospital end-of-life spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In our analysis, we use detailed administrative data on individual personal characteristics and information about health-care expenses at the regional level. To account for potential selectivity in the region of health-care treatment we compare local patients with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality after heart attacks is substantially lower. Apparently, there are long-term returns to local health-care spending.
Classification-JEL: C41, H75, I11, I18
Keywords: Health-care spending, heart attack, mortality, duration models
File-URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/22072.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20220072