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Job insecurity, debt burdens and individual health
Blázquez Cuesta, Maite; Budría, Santiago; Moro-Egido, … - 2019
Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the...
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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337122
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What is the added value of preschool? : long-term impacts and interactions with a health intervention
Rossin-Slater, Maya; Wüst, Miriam - 2016
interaction with a health intervention during infancy. Using administrative data from Denmark together with variation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543682
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Childhood health shocks, comparative advantage, and long-term outcomes : evidence from the last Danish polio epidemic
Gensowski, Miriam; Nielsen, Torben Heien; Nielsen, Nete Munk - 2018
A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This paper demonstrates that the adversity of childhood physical disability can be mediated by individuals' educational and occupational choices, which reflect their comparative...
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Mortality inequality : the good news from a county-level approach
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2016
Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …
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Status concern and relative deprivation in China : measures, empirical evidence, and economic and policy implications
Chen, Xi - 2015
and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
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Testing for ethnic discrimination in outpatient health care: evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Halla, Martin; Kah, Christopher; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2021
To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email-correspondence study in Germany. We approach 3,224 physician offices in the 79 largest cities in Germany with fictitious appointment requests and randomized patients' characteristics. We find...
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Understanding the rise in life expectancy inequality
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, … - 2021
the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade …
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported victimizations, we find sharp and discontinuous increases in victimization rates at these ages: about 13% for both genders at 16 and 9% (15%) for males (females) at 18. These results are...
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