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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: implications of climate change

Ziebarth, N. R.; Schmitt, M.; Karlsson, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

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Exploring comparative effect heterogeneity with instrumental variables: prehospital intubation and mortality

Evans, H.; Basu, A - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

find evidence that effect of PHI on inpatient mortality vary over levels of unobserved confounders giving rise to a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145913

Exploring comparative effect heterogeneity with instrumental variables: prehospital intubation and mortality

Evans, H.; Basu, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

inpatient mortality. We find evidence that the effect of PHI on inpatient mortality varies over levels of unobserved confounders …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364544

Only in the Heat of the Moment? A Study of the Relation between Weather and Mortality in Germany

Karlsson, M.; Schmitt, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

In this study we analyze the relationship between heat events and mortality in Germany. The main research questions are …: Does heat lead to rising mortality and if yes, are the eects persistent or compensated for in the near future? Furthermore …, we consider dierences between heat eects in urban and rural environments. Cause specic daily mortality and meteorological …

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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Bloemen, H.; Hochguertel, S.; Zweering, J. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years,using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the Netherlands. Among the older workers we focus on, a group of civil servants became eligible for retirement...

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Time and chance happen to them all? Duration modelling versus lifetime incidence of cancer

Howdon, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012

While current work on socioeconomic inequality in cancer looks at lifetime incidence of cancer, it is more informative to consider survival times: healthy time lived without cancer. This paper uses the rst wave of, and latest longitudinal follow-up to, the Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS) to...

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Extending Regression Discontinuity Models Beyond the Jump Point

Ai, C; Norton, E; Yang, z - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011

This paper proposes a new estimation method for regression discontinuity models, allowing for estimation of a treatment effect beyond the jump point (with additional assumptions). The proposed procedure consistently estimates the treatment effect function, as well as the average outcome in the...

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A discrete latent factor model for smoking, cancer and mortality.

Howdon, D.; Jones, A. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013

This paper investigates the relationships between social circumstances, individual behaviours, and ill-health later in life, with a particular focus on the development of cancer. A discrete latent factor model incorporating individuals' smoking and health outcomes (lifespan and time-to-cancer)...

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Looking for private information in self-assessed health

Banks, James; Crossley, Thomas; Goshev, Simo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

The paper investigates whether self-assessed health status (SAH) contains information about future mortality and … contain private information for future mortality and morbidity. Moreover the extra information in SAH is greater at older ages …

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Catching the habit: a study of inequality of opportunity in smoking-related mortality

S, Balia; Jones A.M - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009

This paper investigates inequality in smoking-related mortality risk, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of … smoking. We estimate a latent factor model for smoking initiation, cessation and mortality risk using the British Health and … overall mortality risk, Sen's welfare index and generalised Lorenz curves are computed for the baseline model and for …

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