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Is the Impact of Health Shocks Cushioned by Socioeconomic Status? The Case of Low Birthweight
Currie, Janet - 1999
, and health status using data from the National Child Development Study. The study has followed the cohort of children born … and socio-economic status (SES), asking to what extent the deleterious effects of LBW are mitigated by higher SES. We find … that LBW has significant long-term effects on self-reported health status, educational attainments, and labor market …
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Dynamic Aspects of of Children's Health, Intellectual Development, and Family Economic Status
Shakotko, Robert A. - 1980
This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by family economic variables. The model proposed recognizes that these processes may be jointly dependent, and may in part be determined by common unobserved factors; these factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478694
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Schooling, Ability, Non Pecuniary Rewards, Socioeconomic Background and the Lifetime Distribution of Earnings
Taubman, Paul J. - 1973
Inequality in income or earnings is the most indisputable fact about the distribution of income. Inequality in income distribution occurs in most political and economic models and has from ancient times to the modern era. Society and government have expressed a desire to establish a minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479108
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Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children
Costa, Dora - 2019
economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479436
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The Deadweight Loss of Social Recognition
Butera, Luigi - 2019
A growing body of empirical work shows that social recognition of individuals' behavior can meaningfully influence individuals' choices. This paper studies whether social recognition is a socially efficient lever for influencing individuals' choices. Because social recognition generates utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479589
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Redistributive Effects of Different Pension Systems When Longevity Varies by Socioeconomic Status
Sánchez-Romero, Miguel - 2019
We propose a general analytical framework to model the redistributive features of alternative pension systems when individuals face ex ante differences in mortality. Differences in life expectancy between high and low socioeconomic groups are often large and have widened recently in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479894
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Males at the Tails : How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap
Autor, David - 2020
quantile regression, we investigate whether family socioeconomic status (SES) differentially affects the lower tail outcomes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481779
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Socioeconomic Status and the Experience of Pain : An Example from Knees
Cutler, David M. - 2020
Reports of pain differ markedly across socioeconomic groups and are correlated with outcomes such as functional limitations and disability insurance receipt. This paper examines the differential experience of pain by education. We focus on knee pain, the most common musculoskeletal complaint....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482194
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Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
Andrew, Alison - 2020
strong homophily by socioeconomic status (SES) that is symmetric across socioeconomic groups. Mediation analysis shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482268
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Inequality at Birth : Some Causes and Consequences
Currie, Janet - 2011
Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and participation in social programs. In turn, endowments at birth are predictive of adult outcomes, and of the outcomes of future generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461859