Long-term returns to local health-care spending

Jakub Cerveny and Jan C. van Ours
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Jakub Cerveny: Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
Jan C. van Ours: Erasmus University Rotterdam

No 22-072/V, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

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.

Keywords: Health-care spending; heart attack; mortality; duration models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 H75 I11 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10-10
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