Similar Search Results

Housing, home ownership, tenure choice, first-time home-buyers, marriage, income risk

Fisher, Jonas D. M. (contributor); … - 2009

; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871276

Urban fertility responses to local government programs: evidence from the 1923-1932 U.S.

Fox, Jonathan F.; Myrskylä, Mikko - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

that the local government programs of health education and outdoor care of poor had the unintended effect of reducing … fertility. Fixed effects regressions indicate a $4 increase in per capita public health education spending or a $37 increase in … poor relief reduced the TFR by 0.1. This suggests that cities spending in the 75th percentile on health education …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360145

Public health, poor relief and improving urban child mortality outcomes in the decade prior to the New Deal

Fox, Jonathan F. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

This paper examines the effectiveness of the public health education and poverty relief programs prior to the New Deal … been unable to econometrically estimate their impact across a large set of cities. Data on municipal health education and … estimates suggesting that it was primarily spending on health education which led to lower infant and child mortality during the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836246

Losses of expected lifetime in the US and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Zhang, Zhen; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2009

Patterns of diversity in age at death are examined using e†, a dispersion measure that also equals the average expected lifetime lost at death. We apply two methods for decomposing differences in e†. The first method estimates the contributions of average levels of mortality and mortality...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592539

Does the impact of socioeconomic status on mortality decrease with increasing age?

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

The impact of SES on mortality is an established fact. I examine if this impact decreases with increasing age. Most research finds that it does so but it is unknown whether this decrease is due to mortality selection. The data I use come from the US-Health and Retirement Study, which surveyed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227934

To concentration of reproduction in cohorts of US and European women

Shkolnikov, Vladimir M.; Andreev, Evgueni M.; Houle, René - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2004

We study inter-individual variability in number of children among women. Concentration ratio (CR) and percentile measures are used. In most countries CR has increasing from cohorts of the 1930s-40s onward due to rise in childlessness. In cohorts of the early 1960s CR varies from 0.24 to 0.46...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163247

Does the socioeconomic mortality gradient interact with age? Evidence from US survey data and Danish register data

Hoffmann, Rasmus - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

The aim of our paper is to provide an answer to the questions if and why social differences in health and mortality decrease with age. Most research confirms this decrease but the reasons for it and the role of unobserved heterogeneity are unknown. The data used for our analysis come from the US...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168330

Religion, religiousness and fertility in the U.S. and in Europe

Frejka, Tomas; Westoff, Charles F. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700149

Differences in lifespan by month of birth for the United States: the impact of early life events and conditions on late life mortality

Doblhammer, Gabriele - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2002

difference depends on race, region of birth, marital status, and education: The differences are largest for the less educated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700179

Selling daughters : age of marriage, income shocks and the bride price tradition

Corno, Lucia; Voena, Alessandra - 2016

– transfers from the groom to the bride’s parents at marriage. We develop a simple model in which households are exposed to income …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533733