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The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood

Yeung, Gary Y.C.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during … first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … females. It also significantly increases mortality risks due to cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases of …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Healthy Eating Behaviour and the Role of Household Income

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Smith, Murray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...

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Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases

Groot, Wim; den Brink, Henriette Maassen van; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is applied to calculate the compensating income variation of health impairments. We believe that this...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual … negative effect of economic conditions early in life on the individual CV mortality rate at higher ages. There is no effect on … the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …

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Bouncing Back from Health Shocks: Locus of Control, Labor Supply, and Mortality

Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To...

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Returns to Childbirth Technologies: Evidence from Preterm Births

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...

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Poverty and Transitions in Health

Adena, Maja; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

analysed. In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …

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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and mortality. A €1,000 reduction in annual benefits leads to a rise of 4.2 percentage points in the probability of being … the hospitalization of men subject to stricter rules but their mortality rate is reduced by 1.2 percentage points. The …

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