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Ageing, health and life satisfaction of the oldest old : an analysis for Germany

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2009

This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life satisfaction of the oldest old (defined as 75 and older). We observe a U-shaped relationship between age...

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...

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The ratio bias phenomenon : fact or artifact?

Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Villeval, … - 2009

The ratio bias - according to which individuals prefer to bet on probabilities expressed as a ratio of large numbers to normatively equivalent or superior probabilities expressed as a ratio of small numbers - has recently gained momentum, with researchers especially in health economics...

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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland

Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...

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School shootings and student performance

Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - 2010

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...

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Physician-leaders and hospital performance : is there an association?

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2011

are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …

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Coming to work while sick : an economic theory of presenteeism with an application to German data

Hirsch, Boris; Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2015

Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that presenteeism arises due to differences between workers in (health-related) disutility from workplace...

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Gender differences in the effects of behavioral problems on school outcomes

Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Smith, Nina - 2013

Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to school outcomes. The study is based on teacher and parent evaluations of the Strength and Difficulties...

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Sinners or saints? : preachers' kids and risky health behaviors

Delaney, Jason; Winters, John V. - 2013

This paper examines parental influence on adolescent risky behavior, focusing on a unique population: children of the clergy, more commonly known as preachers' kids (PKs). We use latent variable and zero-inflated count models to analyze the effect of being a PK on both uptake and intensity of...

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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment

Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

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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