Nursing Homes and Mortality in Europe: Uncertain Causality

Arbeitspapier

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending themselves to excess mortality even before the pandemic. Controlling for a number of important characteristics of the elderly population in and outside nursing homes, we conjecture that the difference in mortality between those two samples is to be attributed to the way nursing homes are designed and organised. Using matching methods, we observe excess mortality in Belgium, France, Germany Luxembourg, Switzerland, Estonia and Czech Republic but no statistically significant excess mortality in Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Italy or Spain. This raises the question of the organisation and management of these nursing homes, but also of their design and financing.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9572

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Health: General ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
• Subject: nursing homes ; mortality ; propensity score matching ; SHARE

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Flawinne, Xavier ; Lefebvre, Mathieu ; Perelman, Sergio ; Pestieau, Pierre ; Schoenmaeckers, Jerome
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/252089
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET