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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis
Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; Ham, Maarten van; Kempen, … - 2014
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463411
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Early retirement and post retirement health
Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per-Olov; Josephson, Malin - 2014
for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369753
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For want of a cup: the rise of tea in England and the impact of water quality on mortality
Antman, Francisca M. - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger … declines in mortality rates after tea drinking became widespread and following larger volumes of tea imports. Results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805554
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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290644
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Knocking it down and mixing it up : the impact of public housing regenerations
Blanco, Hector; Neri, Lorenzo - 2023
Due to their negative effects on surrounding neighborhoods, some countries have gradually been replacing distressed public housing developments with mixed-income housing. This paper studies the effects of such policies on local housing markets in London (UK), where local authorities demolished...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013498999
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The effect of family disruption on children's personality development : evidence from British longitudinal data
Prevoo, Tyas; Weel, Bas ter - 2014
This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions - measured by separation, divorce and death - on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457823
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective wellbeing go back to at most the 1970s, we can go back at least 200 years further using our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Disease prevalence, disease incidence, and mortality in the United States and in England
Banks, James; Muriel, Alastair; Smith, James P. - 2010
the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975385
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Childhood economic conditions and length of life : evidence from the UK boyd orr cohort, 1937 - 2005
Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael; Hatton, Timothy J.; … - 2007
with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561620
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Death, happiness, and the calculation of compensatory damages
Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608456