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The unequal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from a large representative German population survey
Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, Andreas - 2021
We employ panel data from three waves of a large representative population survey carried out between June and November 2020 to assess in what regards and to what extent different groups of the German population are affected by the COVID- 19 crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate...
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The "Great Lockdown": inactive workers and mortality by Covid-19
Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2020
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak, among other previous "non-pharmaceutical interventions", on March 22, 2020 the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effect of this measure on...
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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … BAME groups. The BAME group of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani appears to be driving the difference in the gender gap in …
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Health and wellbeing spillovers of a partner's cancer diagnosis
Angelini, Viola; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023
Major health shocks can have far-reaching consequences on the welfare of an individual's support and emotional network. This paper investigates both long-term and short-term spillovers of a major non-communicable health shock, namely a cancer diagnosis (CD), on the health and well-being of an...
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Alternative values-based "recipes" for life satisfaction : German results with an Australian replication
Headey, Bruce; Wagner, Gert G. - 2018
In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate...
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Health expenditures and the effectiveness of Covid-19 prevention in international comparison
Hansen, Jaqueline; Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2021
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...
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Nineteenth century body mass, height, and weight : inequality across quantiles
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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How does exposure to Covid-19 influence health and income inequality aversion?
Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021
We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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Do medical treatments work for work? : evidence from breast cancer patients
Daysal, N. Meltem; Evans, William N.; Pedersen, Mikkel Hasse - 2024
We investigate the effects of radiation therapy on the mortality and economic outcomes of breast cancer patients. We implement a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-difference framework exploiting variation in treatment stemming from a medical guideline change in Denmark. Using administrative...
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