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Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight

Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

I demonstrate that although socioeconomic differences in birth weight have always been" fairly small in the United States, they have narrowed since the beginning of this century. I argue" that maternal height, and therefore the mother's nutritional status during her growing years accounted for...

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Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change

Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Functional disability (difficulty in walking , difficulty in bending, paralysis, blindness in at least one eye, and deafness in at least one ear) in the United States has fallen at an average annual rate of 0.6 percent among men age 50 to 74 from the early twentieth century to the early 1990s....

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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert; Wehby, George L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....

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Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity: Role of Selection Bias

Dave, Dhaval M.; Colman, Gregory; Tennant, Jennifer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

There is suggestive evidence that rates of major depression have risen markedly in the U.S. concurrent with the rise in obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal...

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Racial, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Physical Activity

Saffer, Henry; Dave, Dhaval M.; Grossman, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This study examines racial, ethnic and gender differentials in physical activity. Individuals engage in physical activity during leisure-time and also during in many other activities such as walking to work, home maintenance, shopping and child care. Physical activity also occurs on the job is...

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Physical Activity and Health

Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

While the link between physical activity and health has been studied, there are several limitations that persist in this literature relating to external and internal validity of the estimates, potential measurement error in self-reported weight and risk factors, failure to account for physical...

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Unemployment and Health Behaviors Over the Business Cycle: a Longitudinal View

Colman, Gregory; Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent … decline in total physical activity. We also find that unemployment is associated with a decline in purchases of fast food …

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How Does the Business Cycle Affect Eating Habits?

Dave, Dhaval M.; Kelly, Inas Rashad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

(1990-2007) to explore the relationship between the risk of unemployment and the consumption of various healthy and … unhealthy foods. Estimates, based on fixed effects methodologies, indicate that a higher risk of unemployment is associated with … stratifications and by isolating the effect for those predicted to be at highest risk of unemployment based on their socio …

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Effects of Pharmaceutical Promotion: A Review and Assessment

Dave, Dhaval M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This review discusses the role of consumer-directed and physician-directed promotion in the pharmaceutical market, based on the classic conceptual framework of whether such promotion is "persuasive" and/or "informative". Implications for public health and welfare partly depend on whether, and to...

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HIV and Fertility Revisited

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Young (2005) argues that HIV related population declines reinforced by the fertility response to the epidemic will lead to higher capital-labor ratios and to higher per capita incomes in the affected countries of Africa. Using household level data on fertility from South Africa and relying on...

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