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In this paper we examine the impact of a tailored health warning on health outcomes. We exploit the design of a …
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We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked … more likely to score in the top quintile. Subsequent gains, in secondary schooling, employment, and earnings, are … welfare state having created unprecedented employment opportunities for women. …
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This paper analyses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status accounting for the role of breadth and … distributional analysis of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. Using data from the British Household Panel …. Decomposition analysis of the contribution of components of deprivation to health suggests breadth of deprivation to dominate the …
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In this note we take a first look at the extent to which ethnic minorities in the UK maintain or diverge from the diet associated with their country of origin; and whether those who maintain their ethnic origin diet eat more or less healthily. We find that immigrants are more likely to eat food...
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range of administrative health records. Multivariate analysis is applied to investigate whether there is consent bias. We … find that consent on the BHPS is not biased with respect to socio-economic characteristics or health; recent users of GP … focus, the problem of bias is less of an issue. -- data linkage ; consent ; BHPS ; selection bias ; health inequality …
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We examine whether financial capability has impacts on psychological health independent of income and financial … measure of financial capability, which we relate to respondents' psychological health using the 12-item General Health … Questionnaire. We find that financial capability has significant and substantial effects on psychological health over and above …
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their sexuality. Recommendations concern alleviating sexuality related homelessness, school bullying, health inequalities …
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correlated patterns of ill-health in later life. In the absence of long-term prospective data on couples, we use long …-range recall data from the pan-European SHARELife survey and estimate a latent variable model of the health states of marital … partners in childhood, early adulthood and late adulthood. We find strong persistence in health states and a strong comorbidity …
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literature, we find no statistically significant impact of breastfeeding on a number of health outcomes, but we see an … improvement in child emotional development and maternal mental health. …
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Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … aspects of child mental health from two major UK surveys. We test whether the different observers give reports that are … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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