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Healthy climate, healthy bodies : optimal fuel taxation and physical activity
Van den Bijgaart, I. M.; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has … identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387641
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Unpacking global shocks
Graziano, Alejandro G.; Tian, Yuan - 2024
Economy-wide shocks affect demand, supply, and intermediary sectors simultaneously. We dissect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on international trade by combining information from customs records, smartphone-based human mobility, and container ship port calls. We find that local disruptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057719
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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509598
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Bio-demographic and health aspects of ageing in the EU
Herce, José A.; Ahn, Namkee; Génova, Ricard; Pereira, … - 2003
relate this process with health and retirement issues. Five dimensions of the ageing process have been considered: population … major individual lifetime landmarks have been evolving in a way that may not be mutually compatible. As for how health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509437
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Motivated beliefs and the elderly's Compliance With Covid-19 Measures
Siemens, Ferdinand von - 2021
Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417456
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Education and mental health : causal effects and intra-family spillovers
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024
Mental health is essential for well-being and quality of life. Yet, our knowledge of the determinants of mental health … is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583786
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Does immigration affect the natives’ mental health? : causal evidence from forced Syrian migration to Turkey
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024
Large-scale immigration waves can have adverse effects on physical and mental health of the natives. We investigate the … impact of the unprecedented influx of Syrian refugees after 2011 on the mental health of native Turks. Our results suggest … that immigration may adversely affects the mental health of natives. The adverse effects, however, are conditioned by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077828
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The effect of compulsory schooling on health : evidence from biomarkers
Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - 2010
Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981981
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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons : a multinomial approach
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
health ; racial disparity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965104
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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301397