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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
Lin, Ming-Jen; Liu, Elaine M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891167
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the … program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703743
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Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe
Caroli, Eve; Godard, Mathilde - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original instrumental variable approach based on the idea that workers perceive greater job security in...
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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269605
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Sinners or Saints? Preachers' Kids and Risky Health Behaviors
Delaney, Jason J.; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...
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Nonparametric Bounds on the Effect of Deductibles in Health Care Insurance on Doctor Visits - Swiss Evidence
Gerfin, Michael; Schellhorn, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise statistical assumptions. In order to tighten the bounds we consider three further assumptions: mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233924
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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005019398
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Does Job Satisfaction Improve the Health of Workers? New Evidence Using Panel Data and Objective Measures of Health
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703142