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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Health - Evidence from Biomarkers

Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2010

exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …

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Health, Wealth and Inequality: a Contribution to the Debate about the Relationship between Inequality and Health

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

The relationship between material inequality and health is the subject of considerable debate, and may depend on how … the relationship is defined. This paper uses stature as its measure for cumulative health outcomes to illustrate that the … 19th century relationship between material inequality and health was negative; greater average state wealth was …

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Living Standards in Black and White: Evidence from the Heights of Ohio Prison Inmates, 1829 – 1913

Carson, Scott A.; Maloney, Thomas N. - CESifo - 2006

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic history literature. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence...

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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009

This study analyzes the effects of right-wing extremism on the well-being of immigrants based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2006 merged with state-level information on election outcomes. The results show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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The Application of the Capability Approach to High-Income OECD Countries: A Preliminary Survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Trends of Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 – 2006

Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - CESifo - 2008

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

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African-American and White Inequality in the American South: Evidence from the 19th Century Missouri State Prison

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in the literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One...

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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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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