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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955000
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Gibson, John K. - 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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SES Health Gradients During the Epidemiological Transition : The Case of China
Lei, Xiaoyan - 2010
The epidemiological transition, which has already passed the developed world, is still progressing in many developing countries. A particular problem associated with this transition is the under-diagnosis and lack of treatment of chronic diseases, and these may exhibit SES gradients and...
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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay
Falk, Armin - 2011
heart rate variability. The latter is an indicator of stress-related impaired cardiac autonomic control, which has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124489
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Does Education Reduce the Risk of Hypertension? Estimating the Biomarker Effect of Compulsory Schooling in England
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2010
This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the minimum school-leaving age law in the United Kingdom from age 14 to 15 in 1947, and from age 15 to 16 in 1973, as sources of exogenous variation in schooling, the regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146170
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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health : Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - 2021
asymptomatic nature of many major illnesses such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and cancer at moderate and sometimes very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317126
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Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease : The Case of Cigarette Smoking
Margolis, Jesse - 2014
Comparisons of the effectiveness of two common procedures for Coronary Artery Disease: Percutaneous Coronary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046239
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Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males
Bijwaard, Govert - 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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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan - 2022
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...
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