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The effect of changes in the statutory minimum working age on educational, labor and health outcomes
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vall Castello, Judit; Del Rey, … - 2015
-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …
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Intergenerational transmission of human capital : is it a one-way street?
Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh - 2015
Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309021
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337077
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The long lasting influenza : the impact of fetal stress during the 1918 influenza pandemic on socioeconomic attainment and health in Sweden 1968 - 2012
Bengtsson, Tommy; Helgertz, Jonas - 2015
, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337157
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Economic reform and mortality in the former Soviet Union : a study of the suicide epidemic in the 1990s
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2001
that the general adult male mortality crisis in the region had a "feedback" effect on suicide rates, with the loss of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339675
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Pollution, infectious disease, and mortality : evidence from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347213
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Bouncing back from health shocks : locus of control, labor supply, and mortality
Schurer, Stefanie - 2014
Policy-makers worldwide are embarking on school programmes aimed at boosting students' resilience. One facet of resilience is a belief about cause and effect in life, locus of control. I test whether positive control beliefs work as a psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To...
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Returns to childbirth technologies : evidence from preterm births
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2013
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228781
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution : implications of climate change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Schmitt, Maike; Karlsson, Martin - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
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