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the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born …
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age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the …-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for …
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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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.3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the … 0.216 compared to 0.6 in the simulation model) which suggests substantial returns to college education in terms of …
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mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … through education, but find no evidence that parents reinforce differences in skill endowments. We argue that there is a bias …
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A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have little reason to delay gratification for the promise of...
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The magnitude of the effect that health has on the retirement decision has long been studied. We examine the reverse relationship, whether or not retirement has a direct impact on later-life health. In order to identify the causal relationship, we use unexpected early retirement window offers to...
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In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
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We find disease incidence and prevalence are both higher among Americans in age groups 55-64 and 70-80 indicating that Americans suffer from higher past cumulative disease risk and experience higher immediate risk of new disease onset compared to the English. In contrast, age specific mortality...
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