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Is work bad for health? The role of constraint vs choice

Caroli, Eve; Bassanini, Andrea - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the ne gative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is de trimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

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Summary Report of the Incidence and Prevalence of Worker Injury and Subsequent Outcome in British Columbia: a Record Linkage Study.

Hertzman, C.; McGrail, K.; Hirtle, R. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

workers claims, from 1986 to 1996, to the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Using 'personal identifier … file were succesfully matched to an individual in our Linkage Co-ordinating File, the scrambled Personal Health Number was … other files in the BCLCDB in order to produce longitudinal records of health services utilization for individual injured …

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Reducing Birth Defects in Populations.

Baird, P.A. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

Birth defects occur in population in 3-5% of births. All those birth defects due to chromosomal errors, hundreds of those due to single genes and many of those due to unknown or multifactoral cause can be detected prenatally. However, it is not feasible to test all pregnancies for all of these...

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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...

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The Choice of Detecting Down Syndrome: Does Money Matter?

Garrouste, Clémentine; Le, Jérôme; Maurin, Eric - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

-related miscarriage. Building on the specific features of the French Health insurance system, this paper shows that variation in the … test. By contrast, the sole fact of being labelled 'high-risk' by the Health system seems to have, as such, only a modest …

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Circumstances and Efforts: How important is their correlation for the measurement of inequality of opportunity in health?

Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

overall health inequality according to the different normative principles. Our results suggest that, in practice, the … contributions of circumstances and efforts to explained health inequality. …

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Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

We look at the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Côte d'Ivoire and study to which extent cocoa producers' children su®ered from this severe aggregate shock in terms of school enrollment, labor, height stature and morbidity. Using pre-crisis (1985-88) and post- crisis...

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Effort or Circumstances : Which one matters in health inequality ?

Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of … issue at stake is how to treat the correlation between circumstances and effort. Using a representative French health survey … circumstances to inequalities in health ranges between 44.5% and up to 46.4% according to the scenario, whereas the contribution of …

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Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suﬀered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

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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.

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