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Trade Liberalization and Mortality : Evidence from U.S. Counties
Pierce, Justin R. - 2016
exogenous trade liberalization exhibit higher rates of suicide and related causes of death, concentrated among whites … manufacturing employment, a sector in which whites and males are disproportionately employed. We also examine other causes of death …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455831
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Opiates of the Masses? Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion
Giles, Tyler; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Oostrom, Tamar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent decades, death rates from poisonings, suicides, and alcoholic liver disease have dramatically increased in the United States. We show that these "deaths of despair" began to increase relative to trend in the early 1990s, that this increase was preceded by a decline in religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537734
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Do Workers Undervalue COVID-19 Risk? Evidence from Wages and Death Certificate Data
Thanh Cong Gian; Gupta, Sumedha; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
COVID-19 era, but research to date has been sparse on how much of this increase reflects compensating wage differentials for … Occupational Injuries (CFOI) and wage data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to examine whether compensating wage … mortality wage premiums imply that workers trade off money and mortality risk using a VSL of about $18 million, which is near …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015094873
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Intergenerational Correlations in Longevity
Black, Sandra E.; Duzett, Neil; Lleras-Muney, Adriana; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While there is substantial research on the intergenerational persistence of economic outcomes such as income and wealth, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall measure of health) across generations using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247955
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Projected Health Benefits and Health Care Savings from the United States National Hepatitis C Elimination Initiative
Chhatwal, Jagpreet; Aaron, Alec; Zhong, Huaiyang; Sood, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The national hepatitis C elimination initiative provides an opportunity to dramatically expand access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment and put the US on a path to eliminating hepatitis C. Our objective was to project the health benefits and cost savings of this initiative. A previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250157
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper reviews and extends the recent empirical literature on the impact of climate change on mortality and adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334499
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Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Courtemanche, Charles; Jones, Jordan W.; Koumpias, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the impact of Medicaid expansions to parents and childless adults on adult mortality. Specifically, we evaluate the long-run effects of eight state Medicaid expansions from 1994 through 2005 on all-cause, healthcare-amenable, non-healthcare-amenable, and HIV-related mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537712
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ACA Medicaid Expansions and Maternal Morbidity
Chatterji, Pinka; Glenn, Hanna; Markowitz, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper, we test whether the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions are associated with in-hospital maternal morbidity. The ACA expansions may have affected maternal morbidity by increasing pre-conception access to health care, and by improving the quality of delivery care through...
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Maternal and Infant Health Inequality : New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Kennedy-Moulton, Kate; Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax records and the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics file to provide novel evidence on economic inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462741
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Lives vs. Livelihoods : The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Schilbach, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the Great Recession across the United States to examine its impact on mortality and to explore implications for the welfare consequences of recessions. We estimate that an increase in the unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession...
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