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but others, including greenhouse gas emissions, continue to rise. Poor air and water quality threaten human health, create …
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well as the health benefits arising from the reduction in local air pollution. The shadow price of pollution is calculated … indirectly through its impact on life expectancy. Taking into account the health benefits of mitigation policies significantly …
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This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical...
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with previous studies of subjective wellbeing, show that, apart from income, the state of health, not being unemployed, and … progress with wellbeing in general, or what seems to matter for wellbeing—health, being employed and social contacts-- beyond …
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ability among the elderly. To study effects of the early-life economic environment, macro-economic fluctuations may be used … of these periods differs across countries. <p> We apply data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe … year of birth, controlling for demographic, socioeconomic and health status. We find that economic conditions at birth …
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rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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Serious life events, such as the loss of a relative or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch longitudinal data of older persons. We...
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coming decade or so. Indeed, the operating environment for private business remains challenging. While infrastructure is … strengthen social welfare systems and access to health and education to ensure widespread benefits from continued high growth …
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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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