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Excess mortality, institutionalization and homelessness among status Indians in Canada
Akee, Randall; Feir, Donna - 2016
mortality, institutionalization and homelessness for the largest Indigenous population in Canada from the ages of 5 to 64. We … identify mortality rates at least twice the Canadian average and find exceptionally high mortality rates for young Indigenous … women and girls - up to four times the Canadian average at certain ages. We show mortality rates are even higher on reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594689
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Mortality and immortality
Rablen, Matthew D. (contributor);  … - 2007
It has been known for centuries that the rich and famous have longer lives than the poor and ordinary. Causality, however, remains trenchantly debated. The ideal experiment would be one in which status and money could somehow be dropped upon a sub-sample of individuals while those in a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003527566
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Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause, and in comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet M.; Bär, Marlies; … - 2021
-2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends and racial gaps in life … greatest impact on the racial life expectancy gap. The causes that contributed the most to Black mortality reductions included … by 2036. European life expectancy also stalled after 2014. Still, the comparison with Europe suggests that mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624937
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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality … utility through its status. The decline in mortality stimulates investment and generates an income stream which promotes …-seeking is strong, then the decline of mortality decreases population growth below its original level. -- mortality ; population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124149
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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2019
Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate health inequality) and is based on a concept of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022686
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How much does social status matter to health? : evidence from China's academician election
Liu, Gordon G.; Kwon, Ohyun; Xue, Xindong; Fleisher, … - 2014
The impact of socio-economic status on health has been widely recognized, but the independent impact of social status alone on health remains inconclusive. We approach this challenge by exploiting a natural experiment in which subjects undergo a shift in their social status without considerable...
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Social networks and surviving the Holocaust
Bělín, Matěj; Jelínek, Tomáš; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2022
Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent with these fundamentally selective testimonies. We study the survival of the 140 thousand Jews who...
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The relationship between status and happiness : evidence from the caste system in rural India
Van Landeghem, Bert G. M.; Vandeplas, Anneleen - 2017
A large number of empirical studies have investigated the link between social status and happiness, yet in observational data identification challenges remain severe. This study exploits the fact that in India people are assigned a caste from birth. Two identical surveys of household heads (each...
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The effects of in-work benefit reform in Britain on couples : theory and evidence
Francesconi, Marco (contributor); Rainer, Helmut (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635400
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The impact of parental income and education on the health of their children
Doyle, Orla (contributor); Harmon, Colm (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280782