Dear all
Title: “Heart Mortality and Urbanization: The Role of Unobserved Predictors”
Presented by: Dr. Thomas Bassetti, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Padua.
This article explores rural-urban differences in cardiovascular mortality.Using U.S. county-level data and the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we study how observed and unobserved risk factors affect the mortality rate in metropolitan vs. non-metropolitan areas. Results indicate that observed and unobserved variables have opposite effects on the mortality gap. In particular, traditional risk factors are less abundant in metropolitan counties, in line with the existing literature. However, unobserved factors are less abundant in rural areas. Our results continue to hold when we distinguish between different types of heart diseases and examine men and women separately. In addition, unobserved determinants of mortality are notably significant in non-metro counties adjacent to metro ones.
Details:
Date: Tuesday 7th May
Time: 13.00 – 14.00
Location: Imperial College Business school
Kind regards
Lorraine Sheehy
PA to Professor Rifat Atun/Group Administrator
Health Management Group
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