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dc.contributor.authorFelder, Stefanen
dc.contributor.authorWerblow, Andreasen
dc.contributor.authorZweifel, Peteren
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-30-
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-06T09:02:29Z-
dc.date.available2009-08-06T09:02:29Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-86788-077-0en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/26838-
dc.description.abstractStudies on the effect of ageing on health care expenditures (HCE) have revealed the importance of controlling for time-to-death (TTD). These studies, however, are subject to possible endogeneity if HCE influences remaining life expectancy. This paper introduces a ten year observational period on monthly HCE, socioeconomic characteristics, and survivor status to first predict TTD and then uses predicted values of TTD as an instrument in the regression for HCE. While exogeneity of TTD has to be rejected, core results concerning the role of TTD rather than age as a determinant of HCE (the red herring hypothesis) are confirmed.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aRheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) |cEssenen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aRuhr Economic Papers |x73en
dc.subject.jelI10en
dc.subject.jelD12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordHealth care expenditureen
dc.subject.keywordproximity to deathen
dc.subject.keywordageingen
dc.subject.keywordred herring hypothesisen
dc.subject.stwGesundheitskostenen
dc.subject.stwAlternde Bevölkerungen
dc.subject.stwSterblichkeiten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleDo Red Herrings Swim in Circles? – Controlling for the Endogeneity of Time to Death-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn583982360en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:rwirep:73en

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