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School shootings and student performance
Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - 2010
In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
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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 waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of...
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Examining the education gradient in chronic illness
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2012
This study examines the education gradient in three chronic conditions - diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. In the analysis, we take into account diagnosed as well as undiagnosed cases, and we use methods that account for the possibility that unmeasured factors exist that are...
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Do minimum legal tobacco purchase age laws work?
Yörük, Ceren Ertan; Yörük, Barış K. - 2014
This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the minimum legal tobacco purchase age … of Youth (1997 Cohort), which contains information on the exact birth date of the respondents, we find that the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371917
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Health and aging before and after retirement
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2021
Für bestimmte Berufsgruppen untersuchen wir Gesundheit und Altern vor und nach der Pensionierung. Wir verwenden fünf Wellen des Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) und erstellen einen Gebrechlichkeitsindex für ältere Männer und Frauen aus 10 europäischen Ländern....
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Incorporating inequality aversion in health-care priority setting
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2019
Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an overview of the literature on the measurement of...
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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019
20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...
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Aging and health care expenditures : a non-parametric approach
Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020
-parametric approach is particularly useful to answer the question whether age still has an impact on HCE once TTD is taken into account … grow considerably faster than HCE of survivors. We explore the impact of these findings on the simulation of future HCE and … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …
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The political scar of epidemics
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
What political legacy is bequeathed by national health crises such as epidemics? We show that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. The effect is specific to the...
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Revenge of the experts : will COVID-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?
Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Saka, Orkun - 2021
epidemics since 1970, we show that such exposure has no impact on views of science as an endeavor but that it significantly …
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