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We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences in life expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate a number of duration of life...
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This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
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collapses and movements in variables such as health and well-being. Using nationally-representative samples of older people … this massive fall in wealth, measures of health and well-being remained broadly unchanged. However, expectations about … recessions do not have widespread negative effects on health and well-being …
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maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …
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: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than their older or younger peers. The difference in height suggests …
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mortality, birth weight, child height and adult stature were recorded from approximately 1940 to the late 1960s. While this …
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …
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We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to … smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, relying on extensive data … on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with …
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We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …
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