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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt
Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271984
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279331
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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their … depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325426
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814470
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726723
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Education, Health and Wages
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Veramendi, Gregory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a model with multiple schooling choices that identifies the causal effect of different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a halfway house between a reduced form treatment effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752228
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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings: Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371911
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123400
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John; Frisvold, David E.; Meyerhoefer, Chad D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations … have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … with state policies, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) for 1998 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959837
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010704404