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Were Urban Cowboys Enough to Control Covid-19? Local Shelter-in-Place Orders and Coronavirus Case Growth

Dave, Dhaval - 2020

One of the most common policy prescriptions to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been to legally enforce social distancing through state or local shelter-in-place orders (SIPOs). This paper is the first to explore the comparative effectiveness of early county-level SIPOs versus later statewide...

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Disease and Fertility : Evidence from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Sweden

Boberg-Fazlic, Nina - 2017

This paper studies the effect of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding...

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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

cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in adulthood, by gender. We operationalize CVD risk by constructing the Systematic COronary Risk …

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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

the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s. We go 'beyond Barker', first by showing that this relationship is …'s genetic predisposition for heart disease. We find considerable heterogeneity that is robust to within-area as well as within … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …

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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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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow : Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2011

We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data from 1980-2000, we find that cohorts born after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases...

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