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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Blau, Francine D. - 2001

institutions are responsible for an important portion of international differences in wage inequality, the inverse relationship … between the gender pay gap and male wage inequality suggests that wage-setting mechanisms, such as encompassing collective …

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Health at older ages : the causes and consequences of declining disability among the elderly

Cutler, David M. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003681819

Is the US Population Behaving Healthier?

Cutler, David M. - 2007

In the past few decades, some measures of population risk have improved, while others have deteriorated. Understanding the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the population in the early 1970s with that of the population in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465642

A Proposed Method for Monitoring U.S. Population Health : Linking Symptoms, Impairments, and Health Ratings

Stewart, Susan T. - 2005

We propose a method of quantifying non-fatal health on a 0-1 QALY scale that details the impact of specific symptoms and impairments and is not based on ratings of counterfactual scenarios. Measures of general health status are regressed on health impairments and symptoms in different domains,...

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The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances : The 20th Century United States

Cutler, David M. - 2004

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty" associated with living in urban areas. There is little...

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Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S. Elderly Population

Chernew, Michael - 2016

Understanding how healthy lifespans are changing is essential for public policy. This paper explores changes in healthy lifespan in the U.S. over time and considers reasons for the changes. We reach three fundamental conclusions. First, we show that healthy life increased measurably in the US...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456369

The Contribution of Behavior Change and Public Health to Improved U.S. Population Health

Stewart, Susan T. - 2014

Adverse behavioral risk factors contribute to a large share of deaths. We examine the effects on life expectancy (LE) and quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) of changes in six major behavioral risk factors over the 1960-2010 period: smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use, and unsafe use of...

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Evidence for Significant Compression of Morbidity In the Elderly U.S. Population

Cutler, David M. - 2013

The question of whether morbidity is being compressed into the period just before death has been at the center of health debates in the United States for some time. Compression of morbidity would lead to longer life but less rapid medical spending increases than if life extension were...

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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups

Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks and Whites, and Hispanics and Whites. We use estimates from three … empirical strategies -- two reduced-form, one structural -- to provide counterfactual simulations of between-group inequality …

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Human Capital Spillovers and Health : Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?

Bor, Jacob H.; Cutler, David M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual education, demographics, and area characteristics....

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