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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension

Gibson, John - 2010

Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous because of the potential for self-selection bias. In this...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin - 2011

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Economic Conditions at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Adulthood : Evidence from New Cohorts

Alessie, Rob - 2017

Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...

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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age

Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go...

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Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2022

High educated individuals are less frequently admitted to hospital for cardiovascular diseases and live longer than the lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality rate can be explained by the educational difference in the timing of CVD hospitalisation. We...

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Learning-by-Doing and Productivity Growth Among High-Skilled Workers : Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; … - 2021

Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we...

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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey

Tansel, Aysit - 2011

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …

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Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?

El-Attar, Mayssun - 2009

situation of peace, highly educated individuals are more strongly affected by current depressed economic conditions in Palestine …

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Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Amodio, Francesco - 2017

To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test this hypothesis, we exploit the restrictions...

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