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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland
Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015
This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457716
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Does Drinking Really Decrease in Bad Times?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001
This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic conditions, alcohol use, and drinking problems using individual-level data from the 1987-1999 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. We confirm the procyclical variation in overall drinking identified in previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470207
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Unemployment and Health Behaviors Over the Business Cycle : a Longitudinal View
Colman, Gregory - 2014
We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent recession using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Consistent with prior studies based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457918
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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dupas, Pascaline - 2020
children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481425
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Gender Differences in (some) Formative Inputs to Child Development
Baker, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482600
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Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
Banks, James - 2011
In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461561
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226134
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064