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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?
Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....
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Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data limitations and methodological problems associated with the...
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J.; Landeghem, … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 2-3, pp. 528-538
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes
Tekin, Erdal; Walker, MaryBeth; Wallace, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both the short and long term for parents, children,...
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Anthropometric failure and persistence of poverty in rural India
Gaiha, Raghav; Kulkarni, Veena - In: International Review of Applied Economics 19 (2005) 2, pp. 179-197
estimates point to more pervasive deprivation than conventional measures of poverty based on income or consumption expenditure …
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Chapter 18 The economics of disability and disability policy
Haveman, Robert; Wolfe, Barbara - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 995-1051). 2000
comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …
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Disability Testing and Retirement
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … labour force of healthy workers through disability insurance schemes. Two types of individuals, disabled and leisure …
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Características socio-económicas de las personas con discapacidad en España: un estudio empírico/Socio-Economic Characteristics of People with Disabilities in Spain: an Empirical S...
PASCUAL SÁEZ, MARTA; CANTARERO PRIETO, DAVID - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 25 (2007) Diciembre, pp. 817-817
mental health problem, illness or disability. For this purpose, we will use the information contained in the European …
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Does Parental Disability Matter to Child Education? Evidence from Vietnam
Mont, Daniel; Nguyen, Cuong - In: World Development 48 (2013) C, pp. 88-107
This paper examines the effect of parental disability on the education of children in Vietnam. Having a disabled parent …
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Job loss and disability insurance
Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 137-150
bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance claims can be directly attributed to job … permanent disability retirement and accounts for one quarter of new disability insurance claims. Firm profitability and … tightness of the local labor market also significantly affect employees' likelihood of disability program entry, and the adverse …
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