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When estimating the parameters of a process, researchers can choose the reference unit of time (unit period) for their study. Frequently, they set the unit period equal to the observation interval. However, I show that decoupling the unit period from the observation interval facilitates the...
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business cycle. We employ data on migration, regional unemployment rates and health status from ten years of the Panel Study of … also find weaker evidence for married women. These results suggest that - ceterus paribus - aggregate health outcomes in an …
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We investigate the proposition that the health of migrants does not constitute a random sample of the health of the … is crucial, as it enables us to observe geographic mobility as well as the health of the migrant prior to migration. We … find that, for men and women below 60 years of age, a move from the middle to the bottom of the health distribution reduces …
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Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 that the volcano emits eventually forms particulate matter, another major pollutant. We use this exogenous SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of Hawaii....
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We consider the covariance structure of health. Agents report their health status on the basis of a latent health stock … account for 5% to 10% of the variation in health. At age 60, this percentage rise to between 60% and 80%. We document a …
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conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. …
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We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and changes in self-reported health status. Causal … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
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health status as well as state, industry and occupation fixed effects, we show that poor local labor market conditions are … economic conditions pose health risks and illustrate an important contrast with studies based on aggregate data. The latter …
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We estimate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We use Bayesian methods to … between 50% and 60% of health status can be attributed to familial or neighborhood characteristics. Taking the principal … than previous estimates of sibling correlations in health that rely on linear models, are more in-line with sibling …
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We investigate the impact of exogenous income shocks on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics. To unravel the impact of income on health from unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality, we employ … gradient, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a deterioration of health. These effects are most pronounced …
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