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relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … misclassification. However, under relatively innocuous assumptions concerning the selection process, we often obtain bounds that …
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more likely to have private health insurance. Larger winners are also more likely to drop coverage earlier, possibly after …We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in … the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income elasticities for a range of health care services …
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score ; unconfoundedness ; selection on observables ; measurement error …
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The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little investigation into other behaviors of households affected by such programs. We analyze the...
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selection on observed variables. This is not straightforward when one or more of the covariates are measured with error. Here …
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of selection on unobservables. We then propose a new minimum biased estimator of the average treatment effect. We assess … situations, even when selection is only on observables. -- Treatment effects ; propensity score ; bias ; unconfoundedness … ; selection on unobservables …
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, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …
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We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy … unemployment), income and health directly linked to COVID-19. We find that conditioned on risk aversion and relevant covariates … (income, education, demographics), individuals who have experienced either a health or an financial shock during the COVID-19 …
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While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning …
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Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...
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