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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being
Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
Who records the largest drops in life satisfaction when they move into unemployment? Do men experience a larger drop in life satisfaction than women? Do Australians and Americans record a larger drop than Europeans? Using an Australian panel data-set (the Household Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032810
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684672
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Seebohm Rowntree and the Post-War Poverty Puzzle
Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In his third social survey of York carried out in 1950, Seebohm Rowntree reported a steep decline since 1936 of the percentage of households in poverty. He attributed the bulk of this decline to government welfare reforms enacted during and after the War. Some observers have been uneasy about...
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
opportunity to explore the determinants of child health in the era before the welfare state. We examine the trade-off between the … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967985
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Precipitation, Profits, and Pile-Ups
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
In considering the economic impacts of climatic changes, economists frequently use annual national income as a proxy for social welfare. I show that such studies suffer from a significant bias, arising from the fact that such models typically ignore changes in mortality rates. Using panel data...
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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003
In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity …
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2
De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 that the volcano emits eventually forms particulate matter, another major pollutant. We use this exogenous source of pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252621
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …
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How have Europeans Grown so Tall?
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The … increased by 11cm--representing a dramatic improvement in health. Interestingly, there was a distinct acceleration in the period … and falling family size had more modest effects. Improvements in health care are hard to identify and the effects of the …
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