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, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of …
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This study examines the long term impact of Medicare payment reductions on patient outcomes using a natural experiment - the Balance Budget Act (BBA) of 1997. We use predicted Medicare revenue changes due to BBA, with simulated BBA payment cuts as an instrument, to categorize hospitals by...
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We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a …
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occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
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Occupational choice is a significant input into individuals' health investments, operating in a manner that can be … either health-promoting or health-depreciating. Recent studies have highlighted the potential importance of initial … a causal relationship between initial occupational choice at labor entry and subsequent health behaviors and habits. We …
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Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing …
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service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …
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-- on biomarkers and health. Nevertheless, we expect that intellectual convergence to happen slowly …
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and health outcomes. The study analyzes the life trajectories of children born between 1945 and 1968, and followed through … of incarceration, and improved adult health status; desegregation had no effects on whites across each of these outcomes …
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Debilitating events could leave either frailer or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army POWs, which effect dominates 35...
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