Autori
Becchetti, Leonardo
Conzo, Pierluigi
Salustri, Francesco

Titolo
The (w)health of Nations: the Contribution of Health Expenditure to Active Ageing
Periodico
Università degli studi di Torino. Dip. Di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis. Working paper series
Anno: 2015 - Volume: 2 - Fascicolo: 13 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 39

We investigate the impact of health expenditure on health outcomes on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50 on individual and country level data. We find a significant negative impact on changes in the number of chronic diseases which varies according to age, health styles, gender, income and education subgroups. Our findings indicate potentially heterogeneous support to health expenditure across interest groups and are robust when we instrument health expenditure with parliament political composition.



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