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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - 2005
deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262196
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No country for fat men? Obesity, earnings, skills, and health among 450,000 Swedish men
Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269493
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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life: evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business c...
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277321
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280717
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328998
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Au, Doreen; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262030
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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262057
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262072
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Estimating the Effect of Income on Health and Mortality Using Lottery Prizes as Exogenous Source of Variation in Income
Lindahl, Mikael - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262805