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Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Lakdawalla, Darius; Goldman, Dana; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity …, and increases public assistance. Using a microsimulation approach, we quantify the competing public-finance consequences … obesity have increased net public-sector liabilities by $430bn, or approximately 4% of the current debt burden. Larger effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037659
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International Differences in Longevity and Health and their Economic Consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Lakdawalla, Darius; Goldman, Dana; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037666
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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy Ann; Gallo, William T.; Sindelar, Jody L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
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Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets
Yogo, Motohiro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper develops a life-cycle model in which a household faces stochastic health depreciation and chooses consumption, health expenditure, and the allocation of its wealth between bonds, stocks, and housing. The model is calibrated to explain the cross-sectional variation and the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059067
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The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans
Cawley, John; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Moran, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper tests whether income affects the body weight and clinical weight classification of elderly Americans using a natural experiment that led otherwise identical retirees to receive significantly different Social Security payments based on their year of birth. We exploit this natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575621
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Girl Power: Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi
Baird, Sarah J.; Chirwa, Ephraim; Hoop, Jacobus de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in developing countries. Policies that enable them to reach their full potential can have a strong impact not only on their own wellbeing, but also on that of future generations. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271449
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Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program
Singleton, Perry Douglas Singleton, II; Duggan, Mark; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
The U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) currently provides disability benefits to 2.72 million veterans of U.S. military service through the Disability Compensation (DC) program. Until recently, the medical eligibility criteria for this program were the same across service eras, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714740
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The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt
evans, william n.; Moore, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Many studies find that households increase their consumption after the receipt of expected income payments, a result inconsistent with the life-cycle/permanent income hypothesis. Consumption can increase adverse health events, such as traffic accidents, heart attacks and strokes. In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059061
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Liquidity, Activity, Mortality
evans, william n.; Moore, Timothy J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We document a within-month mortality cycle where deaths decline before the 1st day of the month and then spike after the 1st. This cycle is present across a wide variety of causes and demographic groups. A similar cycle exists for a range of activities, suggesting the mortality cycle may be due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059062
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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj; Muchomba, Felix - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and...
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