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While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...
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We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …
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Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …
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income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …
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Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...
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On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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