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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden
Heckley, Gawain; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2014
This paper provides an extensive analysis of the demand for alcohol in terms of total quantity and quantity subdivided … into frequency and intensity demand. The analysis compares across alcohol types (beer, wine and spirits), alcohol drinking … demand for wine. Binge drinkers show less of a differentiation across alcohol types and this is true even of binge drinking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208693
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Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time
Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018
Our aim is to study trends in mental ill-health and socioeconomic-related mental health inequalities over time in Sweden. We also make a first attempt at disentangling why we see such a development, by decomposing any changes in terms of changes in selected demographic and socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208826
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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression
Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - 2015
Decomposition of a bivariate rank dependent index, such as the concentration index, is commonly used to explain socioeconomic inequalities in health. We introduce a new decomposition technique based on the recentered influence function that yields the marginal effects of covariates on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208703
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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
This article suggests an extension of the standard decomposition of the concentration index that allows for an exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel approach is contrasted to the standard one using a panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
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Could Easier Access to University Improve Health and Reduce Health Inequalities?
Heckley, Gawain; Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of university education on medical care use and its income related inequality. We do this by exploiting an arbitrary university eligibility rule in Sweden combined with regression discontinuity design for the years 2003-2013 for students who graduated 2003-2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208805
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Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019
Research has shown that cognitive and non-cognitive skills, education and earnings decrease with birth order. Less is 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140596
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Birth Order, parental health investment, and health in childhood
Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019
Research has shown that cognitive and non-cognitive skills, education and earnings decrease with birth order. Less is 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140939
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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2012
The concentration index and decomposition analysis are commonly used in economics to measure and explain socioeconomic 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208617
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A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health
Glaser, Felix; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2022
Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is restricted to children who experience the health shock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374408
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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … well as the employees who were laid off and a comparison group. These data were merged with information on alcohol … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440148