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Intergenerational Residence Patterns and Covid-19 Fatalities in the EU and the Us
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2020
We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828607
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Are Covid Fatalities in the Us Higher than in the EU, and If so, Why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823302
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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775562
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Childhood Economic Conditions and Length of Life : Evidence from the UK Boyd Orr Cohort, 1937-2005
Frijters, Paul - 2007
with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775846
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
Proto, Eugenio - 2015
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective wellbeing go back to at most the 1970s, we can go back at least 200 years further using our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016303
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The Effect of Family Disruption on Children's Personality Development : Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
Prevoo, Tyas - 2014
This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and death – on personality development of British children included in the 1970 British Cohort Study. There are statistically significant correlations between family disruptions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039590
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For Want of a Cup : The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality
Antman, Francisca - 2022
This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication strategies tying areas with lower initial water quality to larger … declines in mortality rates after tea drinking became widespread and following larger volumes of tea imports. Results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083914
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Disease Prevalence, Disease Incidence, and Mortality in the United States and in England
Banks, James W. - 2010
the English. In contrast, age specific mortality rates are similar in the two countries with an even higher risk among the … English after age 65. Our second aim explains large financial gradients in mortality in the two countries. Among 55-64 year … evidence using a long panel of American respondents that their subsequent mortality is not related to large changes in wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141729
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International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157017
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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Decline in Traffic Related Deaths and Injuries
Oguzoglu, Umut - 2020
This paper investigates the decline in traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries during the months that COVID-19 stay-at-home orders implemented in Turkey. Taking into account the decline in accidents in March and April together, these rates roughly translate to 200 traffic related deaths and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833237