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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998
A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the … relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the …
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998
A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in … explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the … relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822360
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Long-term effects of famine on life expectancy: A re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; … - 2011
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long … mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … hide negative long-term effects. They use death counts from age 60+ from the Human Mortality Data Base for the birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278522
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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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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia - 2014
association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333314
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Do Empty Beds Cause Cesarean Deliveries?
Bachner, Florian; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2024
We examine how the number of beds available in a maternity ward affects the likelihood of cesarean delivery and maternal health. Our analysis is based on administrative data from Austria. We exploit idiosyncratic daily variation in the occupancy of maternity hospital beds. We find that empty...
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Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658066
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The Downward Spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. To analyze the opioid epidemic, a model is constructed where individuals choose whether to use opioids recreationally, knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of recreational opioid usage....
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Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence
Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which economic factors drive contraceptive adoption and change. We investigate the channels through which the relationship between economic development and contraceptive dynamics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296633