Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Econ Hum Biol. 2023 Apr;49:101217. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101217. Epub 2023 Jan 13.
Since 2007 financial recovery plans have been adopted by some Italian regions to contain the costs of the healthcare sector. It is legitimate to ask whether spending cuts associated with the austerity policy have had any effect on the health of the citizens. We examine the indirect impact of financial recovery plans on a broad set of health indicators, accounting for several dimensions of both physical and psychological diseases. We use an instrumental variable fixed-effects model to control for time-varying heterogeneity and to deal with the potential endogeneity of the enrolment in the austerity programme. We find that the Italian austerity policy Piano di Rientro resulted in unintended negative effects on several dimensions of health, hurting and potentially jeopardising the health of citizens.
自 2007 年以来，一些意大利地区通过了金融复苏计划，以控制医疗保健部门的成本。人们有理由质疑与紧缩政策相关的支出削减是否对公民的健康产生了任何影响。我们考察了金融复苏计划对一系列广泛健康指标的间接影响，这些指标考虑了身体和心理疾病的多个维度。我们使用工具变量固定效应模型来控制随时间变化的异质性，并处理参与紧缩计划的潜在内生性。我们发现，意大利的紧缩政策“重返计划”（Piano di Rientro）对健康的多个维度产生了意外的负面影响，损害了公民的健康，并可能危及他们的健康。
