Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost …. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral … outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of variation, and hence an instrument, for the party composition of the municipal …

This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol … Survey (NHANES) 1999-2008. Our findings show that education is not associated with diagnosed diabetes or hypertension, and it … diagnosed cases, there is a strong, negative association between education and having diabetes or hypertension. A small …

The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of diabetes on labor market exit using longitudinal data from the … 1992-2010 Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We estimate a discrete time hazard model to test whether diabetes affects the … estimate the effect of having undiagnosed or poorly controlled diabetes on the probability of labor market exit two years later …

cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from … NHANES III, 1988- 1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report having diabetes (n =1,107, NHANES III; n = 1,933, NHANES 1999 …. -- cardiovascular (CFD) risk factors ; diabetes ; health disparity ; NHANES …

HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … independence. The paper explores the different channels through which HIV/AIDS affects economic growth in a low-income country like …

-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope …

data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …