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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124484
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E. - 2018
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906530
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Pandemic Economics and the Transformation of Health Policy
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy analyses. We then review the literature on the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249128
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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases : Evidence from High Frequency Data
Adda, Jerome - 2015
scarce resources to limit their spread?To answer these questions, we use novel high frequency data from France on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015027
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083966
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Homeownership of Immigrants in France : Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows
Gobillon, Laurent - 2015
We investigate the difference in homeownership rates between natives and first-generation immigrants in France, and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011144
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Technology-Skill Complementarity in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphael - 2016
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997443
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter - 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/10013081794
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Consumption Smoothing in the Demand for Health Care
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2016
We investigate how, in temporary economic hardship, agents change their consumption of health services, and how this depends on whether the service is universally free-of-charge visits to GP's or privately co-financed dental care. We find that own expenditures for dental care decrease. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001305
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Health and Body Mass Index : No Simple Relationship
Hübler, Olaf - 2017
Many studies have shown that obesity is a serious health problem for our society. Empirical analyses often neglect a number of methodological issues and relevant influences on health. This paper investigates empirically whether neglecting these items leads to systematically different estimates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960271