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We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …
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) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and …-1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …
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Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between … health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health …, particularly ?justification bias?, and (2) the relative importance of health changes and long-term health in the decision to work …
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A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …
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Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...
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A vast literature has established a strong positive association of income with health status and a negative association … with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation … causally generates good health and that this effect is of similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used …
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This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although … and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal evidence for such effects. The size of the health gain from …
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poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …
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This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much … better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health … polarisation has a detrimental effect on health. We also find that the way the relevant population subgroups are defined is …
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variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …
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