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Maternal education and childhood immunization in Turkey
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan; Eryurt, Mehmet Ali - 2017
We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705800
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Who’s declining the “free lunch”? New evidence from the uptake of public child dental benefits
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Le, Huong Thu; Connelly, Luke B. - 2020
Recent economic literature has advanced the notion that cognitive biases and behavioural barriers may be important influencers of uptake decisions in respect of public programs that are designed to help disadvantaged people. This paper provides the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180925
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When Reality Bites: Local Deaths and Vaccine Take-Up
Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021
In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent … vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic … granularity. We find that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is positively associated with pre-vaccine COVID-19-related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700492
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The Power of Public Insurance With Limited Benefits: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Lin, Lin; Zai, Xianhua - 2022
expense or all-cause mortality rates among rural residents, but it does reduce mortality for specific diseases such as AIDS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013393491
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China's Labor Market Demand in the Shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from an Online Job Board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168949
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Transformation of Health Policy: A Syndemic Perspective
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of integrating early, targeted and coordinated public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518024
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Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men
Williams, Jenny; van Ours, Jan C. - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect se- lection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617730
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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984707
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The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001608
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Will You Marry Me ... if Our Children Are Healthy? The Impact of Maternal Age and the Associated Risk of Having a Child with Health Problems on Family Structure
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019
Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010911