Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
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俾斯麦的健康保险和死亡率下降
DOI:
10.1093/jeea/jvz052
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发表时间:
2017
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通讯作者:
E. Hornung
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作者:
Stefan Bauernschuster;A. Driva;E. Hornung
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate difference-in-differences and regional fixed effects models exploiting variation in eligibility for insurance across occupations. Our findings suggest that Bismarck’s health insurance generated a significant mortality reduction. Despite the absence of antibiotics and most vaccines, we find the results to be largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. Further evidence suggests that statutory access to well-trained doctors was an elementary channel. This finding may be explained by insurance fund physicians transmitting new knowledge on infectious disease prevention.
影响因子:
13.7
作者:
Bleakley, Hoyt
通讯作者:
Bleakley, Hoyt
影响因子:
1.4
作者:
Lehmann-Hasemeyer;Sibylle;Jochen Streb
通讯作者:
Jochen Streb
DOI:
10.1257/jep.25.3.153
发表时间:
2011
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The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the American Economic Association
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作者:
Almond D;Currie J
通讯作者:
Currie J