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) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …
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Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative features. First, it utilizes a novel "double proof" approach of addressing the reverse causality that tracks only healthy individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that...
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lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality rate can be explained by the educational …, linked to administrative Swedish registers. Our empirical results indicate a clear educational gradient in mortality and in … the impact of CVD hospitalisation on mortality. The implied educational gain in the number of months lost is, however …
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- the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … significant effect that increases the mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I show that these results are not driven by …. -- uninsurance ; spillovers ; heart attack mortality ; hospitals …
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For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …
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Comparisons of the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Evidence indicates that CABG - the more invasive procedure - leads to superior long term outcomes for otherwise similar...
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first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …
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This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is applied to calculate the compensating income variation of health impairments. We believe that this...
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Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...
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This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...
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