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Explaining Adverse Cholesterol Levels and Distinct Gender Patterns in an Indonesian Population Compared with the U.S
Lawton, Ralph I.; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Seeman, Teresa E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In order to shed light on the biological and social drivers underlying the dramatic rise in cardiovascular disease risk in lower-income settings, links between these risks and body composition, behavioral and socioeconomic factors in Aceh, Indonesia, are contrasted with the United States. We...
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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...
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Pharmaceutical Pricing and R&D as a Global Public Good
Frech, Henry Edward; Pauly, Mark V.; Comanor, William S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In his Labor Day address, President Biden stated that the U.S. "has the highest drug prices in the world, and there is no reason for it." For new branded drugs, the first part of that statement is supported by a recent RAND Report (Mulcahy et. al. 2021) which found U.S. average prices are 2.3...
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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle
Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...
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Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2020
, suicide, alcohol) in 2017 and 2018 are good predictors of the demographic groups with NCEDs in 2020. The NCEDs are …
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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David - 2006
suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Hémous, David; Hicks, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few occupations can "spill over" through consumption into...
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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from That in Britain and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 1981
, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U … greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In … historical data covering the period between the late-nineteenth-century and 1940, U.S. wage behavior appears to be much more …
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