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To test for ethnic discrimination in access to outpatient health care services, we carry out an email …
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inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without … substantial bias implying that health is caused by socioeconomic outcomes, which is hard to prove. This article contributes to the … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …
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Schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar, and major depressive disorders are severe mental illnesses (SMIs) that not only entail great suffering for those affected but also major societal costs. In this study, I use administrative register data to provide a detailed picture of the economic situation of...
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include cognitive ability, mental health, and labour-market related behaviour across the life course. However, people who …
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This study tests for forward-looking moral hazard in the social insurance system by exploiting a 1991 reform in Sweden. The replacement rate was reduced for short absences but not for long absences, which introduced a potential future cost of returning to work. Using this exogenous variation in...
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In this paper we study the differences between natives and migrants in the appropriate use of emergency care. We focus on children under one year of age using a sample of more than 45,000 children living in the Metropolitan area of Milan. Consistently with the literature, our findings show that...
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The connection between violence victimization and long term ill-health is well documented, but evidence is lacking on …
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known about birth order effects on health. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth … order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … important birth order effects on health at birth and in primary school. These birth order effects are positive, in that later …
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known about birth order effects on health. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth … order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … important birth order effects on health at birth and in primary school. These birth order effects are positive, in that later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140939
variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …
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