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Childhood Health and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Western Europe
Angelini, V.; Mierau, J.O. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
We analyze the relationship between the business cycle and childhood health. We use a retrospective survey on self-reported childhood health for 10 Western European countries and combine it with historically and internationally comparable data on the Gross Domestic Product. We validate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010602602
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
S, Bhalotra; S, Rawlings - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2009
economic conditions. Child health is indicated by infant survival. Our measure of maternal health is (relative) height … intergenerational correlation of health that is stronger at both tails of the distribution of mother’s height, and larger for negative … deviations from mean height. We show that improving maternal education, raising income and improving the supply or effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963273
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Parental education and offspring outcomes: evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform.
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2012
In this paper, we use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental education on sons’ outcomes. We use data from the Swedish military enlistment register of the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, noncognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133575
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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up
Costa-Font, J.; Kossarova, L. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2015
institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and … capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273681
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Equalising Opportunities in Health Through Educational Policy
Jones, A. M.; Roemer, J. E.; Rosa Dias, P. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
Despite the growing prominence of theoretical analysis of inequality of opportunity over the past twenty years, empirical work towards the normative evaluation of real-world policies has been minimal. This paper seeks to address this issue. It proposes a normative framework to model the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146832
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, P.; Ziebarth, N. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146837
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The short-term population health effects of weather and pollution: implications of climate change
Ziebarth, N. R.; Schmitt, M.; Karlsson, M. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159912
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Using a Semiparametric Estimator to Forecast Education Outcomes in Nicaragua's Red de Proteccion Social
Thomas, R - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
This paper uses baseline data from the randomized experiment of the conditional cash transfer program - Red de Proteccion Social, Nicaragua to conduct an ex ante evaluation and compares results to those of the experimental evaluation. Reduced form estimation of a behavioural model using a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861826
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Quality and quantity: the role of social interactions in individual health
Fiorillo, D; Sabatini, F - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this hypothesis on a representative sample of the Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019870
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The relationship between happiness and health: evidence from Italy
Sabatini, F - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2011
We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample (n = 817) of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011. Based on probit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145914