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We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …
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costs, and diminishing health such as increasing in obesity (and associated physical health problems) as well behavioral … changing health, we find that increasing mental/emotional/physical health problems accounts for a significant portion of … that deteriorating mental/ emotional/physical health resulting from dietary changes and other factors has increased local …
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By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black...
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities … shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational … standing. This paper documents evidence of non-negligible returns to occupation status on health (which we refer as ‘healthy …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …
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We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second … variables including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of persistence of health assessments, and … such associations do not fade over generations. We estimate that a one standard deviation change in ancestral health …
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We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …
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Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
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