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Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking : trends and social disparities across OECD countries
Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - 2015
Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper … illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on … individual-level data from national health and lifestyle surveys. Alcohol consumption, on average, remained relatively stable in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281249
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Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking: Trends and social disparities across OECD countries
Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2015
Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper … illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on … individual-level data from national health and lifestyle surveys. Alcohol consumption, on average, remained relatively stable in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276675
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Doctors, patients and the racial mortality gap
Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 895-908
Research in the health sciences reports persistent racial differences in health care access, utilization, and outcomes. This study investigates three potential sources of these disparities – differential quality of care, physician discrimination, and patient response to therapy. It uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870772
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The provision of community-based mental health care in Lithuania
Wijker, Doron - 2022
This paper sets out the OECD’s assessment of the provision of community-based mental health care in Lithuania. It provides an overview of the burden of mental ill health in Lithuania, highlights strengths and challenges of the mental health care system and care delivery, reports on the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013377708
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Swimming skills around the world : Evidence on inequalities in life skills across and within countries
Borgonovi, Francesca - 2022
Being able to swim empowers individuals to make choices, have agency, and be free to choose core aspects of their life, such as working safely on or near water. It is also associated with lifelong health benefits and reduces the risk of drowning. Using data from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013523768
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821731
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Wealth and health behavior: Testing the concept of a health cost
van Kippersluis, Hans; Galama, Titus J. - In: European Economic Review 72 (2014) C, pp. 197-220
Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by exploiting both inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health behavior. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116946
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Peer effects on risky behaviors: New evidence from college roommate assignments
Eisenberg, Daniel; Golberstein, Ezra; Whitlock, Janis L. - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 126-138
Social scientists continue to devote considerable attention to spillover effects for risky behaviors because of the important policy implications and the persistent challenges in identifying unbiased causal effects. We use the natural experiment of assigned college roommates to estimate peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738058
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What U.S. data should be used to measure the price elasticity of demand for alcohol?
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Jones, Alison Snow; McGeary, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 31 (2012) 6, pp. 851-862
This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price … alcohol demand elasticities—estimates obtained from this source vary drastically and unpredictably. As an alternative …, researchers often use beer taxes to proxy for alcohol prices. While the estimated beer taxes elasticities are more stable, there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051305
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Estimating the price elasticity of beer: Meta-analysis of data with heterogeneity, dependence, and publication bias
Nelson, Jon P. - In: Journal of Health Economics 33 (2014) C, pp. 180-187
Precise estimates of price elasticities are important for alcohol tax policy. Using meta-analysis, this paper corrects … average beer price elasticity is about −0.20, which is less elastic by 50% compared to values commonly used in alcohol tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051308