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Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension
Bonsang, Eric; Caroli, Eve; Garrouste, Clémentine - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …. Once these differences are taken into account, the gender gap in false negative reporting of hypertension is reversed. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658321
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371912
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The opt-out revolution: A descriptive analysis
Antecol, Heather - 2010
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution - highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333009
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Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States: Differences by Race and Ethnicity
Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Son, Yeon Jeong - 2017
The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth to examine differences by race/ethnicity in the shape of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653357
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Competitive Preferences among Asians in the U.S.
Ifcher, John; Zarghamee, Homa - 2020
The median income of Asian households is the highest of all racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. In a laboratory experiment, we examine whether Asians are more willing to compete and have greater competitive preferences than non-Asians. Both with and without controls for performance, performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497814
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The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis
Antecol, Heather - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution – highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods – if one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548718
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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 … schooling reduces the probability of developing subsequent hypertension by approximately 7-12% points; the result which holds … and negative bias in the probit estimates of schooling-hypertension relationship for the male subsample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269851
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Natural experiment evidence on the effect of migration on blood pressure and hypertension
Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven; McKenzie, David; … - 2010
hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274547
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Racial and ethnic disparities in the use of drug therapy
Bowblis, John R.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2010
of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277339