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sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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HIV-positive men's treatment consumption and health outcomes. To establish a causal relationship between reviews and … for individuals who are in worse health and thus face stronger incentives to choose more effective medication despite side … effects. Findings suggest that consumers demand information from experts according to the trade-offs they face when making …
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and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of … malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of … malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839294
sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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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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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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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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