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The health toll of import competition
Adda, Jérôme; Fawaz, Yarine - 2020
. Exploiting over 40 million individual observations on health and mortality, we find that import had a detrimental effect on … utilisation and increased hospitalisation for a large set of conditions, more difficult to treat. The mortality hazard of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162868
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
. We provide evidence supporting these predictions using data on exogenous mortality reductions in the context of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837588
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Life expectancy and the environment
Mariani, Fabio; Pérez-Barahona, Agustín; Raffin, Natacha - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918946
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Human capital, mortality and fertility : a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo (contributor); Sunde, Uwe (contributor) - 2007
children and type and intensity of investments in their own education. The interplay between different dimensions of mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591495
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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of … the population. Lower social classes suffer disproportionally from being born in recessions. This exacerbates mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497911
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The demographic transition : causes and consequences
Galor, Oded - 2012
and the transition to modern growth. -- demographic transition ; gender gap ; human capital ; fertility ; mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530744
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721323
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Human capital formation, life expectancy and the process of economic development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2003 - (Updated May 2003)
This paper presents a non-Malthusian theory of long-term development We model the interplay between the process of human capital formation, technological progress, and the biological constraint of finite lifetime expectancy. All these processes are interdependent and determined endogenously. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413569
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Biased survival expectations and behaviours: does domain specific information matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2021
We study biased survival expectations across two domains and examine whether such biased expectations influence health and financial behaviors. Combining individual-level longitudinal data, retrospective, and end of life data from several European countries for more than a decade, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703131
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Fertility, mortality and environmental policy
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016
This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596093