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Darden, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Understanding cognitive health, its decline, and the investments that shape its age profile in later life are important in an aging society, and yet, estimating the cognitive health production function is complicated by non-random mortality and sample attrition. I study this dynamic selection...

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Time Use, College Attainment, and The Working-from-Home Revolution

Cowan, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college degrees. Relative to 2015-19, the number of minutes worked from home on fall 2021 weekdays increased by over 90 minutes for college graduates; for...

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"Invisible Killer" : Seasonal Allergies and Accidents

Akesaka, Mika; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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Dust to Feed, Dust to Grey : The Effect of In-Utero Exposure to the Dust Bowl on Old-Age Longevity

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-utero and early-life exposure to top-soil erosion caused by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s on old-age longevity. Specifically, we … difference-in-difference designs to compare the longevity of individuals in high/medium versus low top-soil erosion counties post …-1930 versus pre-1930. We find intent-to-treat reductions in longevity of about 0.9 months for those born in high erosion …

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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

From April 2020 through at least the end of 2021, Americans died from non-Covid causes at an average annual rate 97,000 in excess of previous trends. Hypertension and heart disease deaths combined were elevated 32,000. Diabetes or obesity, drug-induced causes, and alcohol-induced causes were...

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Fatal Errors : The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts

Shrader, Jeffrey; Bakkensen, Laura; Lemoine, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide the first revealed preference estimates of the benefits of routine weather forecasts. The benefits come from how people use advance information to reduce mortality from heat and cold. Theoretically, more accurate forecasts reduce mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in...

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Education and Later-life Mortality : Evidence from a School Reform in Japan

Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...

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The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on U.S. Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19

Atkeson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The CDC reports that 1.13 million Americans have died of COVID-19 through June of 2023. I use a model of the impact over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States to address two questions....

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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...

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