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Income Receipt and Mortality – Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis
Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without … substantial bias implying that health is caused by socioeconomic outcomes, which is hard to prove. This article contributes to the … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272731
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Can targeted food taxes and subsidies improve the diet? Distributional effects among income groups
Nordström, Jonas; Thunström, Linda - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2010
the lowest income group, the excise duty reforms seem to have a positive health effect across all other income groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548987
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Why the Econometrician is in Good Spirits – a workshop through the looking glass
Lyttkens, Carl Hampus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2007
Vita brevis, ars longa (or: life is too short for abstracts)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190585
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The Private Demand for Information and the Effects of Public Testing Programs: The Case of HIV.
Boozer, M.; Philipson, T. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private HIV information on sexual activity showing how the private information provided by a public testing program would change the allocation of information generated in absence o fthe program.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647056
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Wage and Labor Supply effects of Illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana : Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days Disabled
Schultz, T-P - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996
used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647086
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … works through improving children's skills and health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734784
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The Cost of Binge Drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - CESifo - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167139
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EARNINGS EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INVESTMENT IN HEALTH IN COLOMBIA.
Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783472
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The Tradeoff Between Redistribution and Effort: Evidence from the Field and from the Lab
Buch, Claudia M.; Engel, Christoph - CESifo - 2012
Building on a theoretical model we test the hypothesis that effort choices and preferences for redistribution are simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model preferences for redistribution and effort choices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547897