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-imposed lock-downs may not present a clear trade-off between GDP and public health, as commonly believed, even though its immediate …
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Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...
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We propose and implement a new approach that allows us to estimate income-specific changes in household welfare in contexts where well-measured prices are not available for important subsets of consumption. Using rich but widely available expenditure survey microdata, we show that we can recover...
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Existing theoretical models of intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status have strong implications for the association of outcomes across multiple generations of a family. These models, however, are highly stylized and do not encompass many plausible avenues for transmission across...
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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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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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The link between circumstances faced by individuals early in life (including those encountered in utero) and later life outcomes has been of increasing interest since the work of Barker in the 1970s on birth weight and adult disease. We provide such a life course perspective for the U.S. by...
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We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …
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not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than … at others? We address these questions using a unique data set based on public health insurance records for 50 …
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This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We … particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which … socioeconomic advantage causes good health varies, both across these four dimensions and across the phases of the lifecycle …
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