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Socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption of the older adults in China : a decomposition method
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018
In China, tobacco consumption is a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases, and understanding the pattern of … socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Tobacco use prevalence and tobacco use quantities were defined for further analysis. Using the concentration index (CI) and …
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Discontinuities in the age-victimization profile and the determinants of victimization
Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Ketel, Nadine; … - 2021
location, cross-cohort variation in the minimum legal drinking age driven by a 2014 reform, and survey data of alcohol …/drug consumption and mobility behaviors. We conclude that the bundle of access to weak alcohol, bars/clubs and smoking increases … victimization at 16 and that age 18 rights (hard alcohol, marijuana coffee shops) exacerbate this risk; vehicle access does not play …
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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
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Indebted and overweight : the link between weight and household debt
Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K. - 2012
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...
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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings : evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022
We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...
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Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019
In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...
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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments
Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired in the household. We investigate whether parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about...
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Hit where it hurts : healthcare access and intimate partner violence
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Rice, Caoimhe T.; Vall … - 2023
This paper investigates the causal link between healthcare access and the help-seeking behavior of intimate partner violence (IPV) victims. Healthcare access can be an important entry point for screening or detecting IPV. Doctors are required by law to report any injuries to a judge if they...
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