| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP12200 |
| DP12200 Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline | |
| Erik Hornung; Stefan Bauernschuster; Anastasia Driva | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-05 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-in-differences strategies using Prussian administrative panel data to exploit differences in eligibility for insurance across occupations. All approaches yield a consistent pattern suggesting that Bismarck's Health Insurance generated a significant mortality reduction. The results are largely driven by a decline of deaths from infectious diseases. We present prima facie evidence that diffusion of new hygiene knowledge through physicians was an important channel. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Health insurance Mortality Demographic transition Prussian economic history |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12200 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541012 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Erik Hornung,Stefan Bauernschuster,Anastasia Driva. DP12200 Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline. 2017. |
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