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Extending Decomposition Analysis to Account for Socioeconomic Background: Income-Related Smoking Inequality among Swedish Women
Kjellsson, Gustav - 2014
for one vital health-related behavior, smoking. The decomposition uses an underlying model that considers both individual … heterogeneity and smoking persistence, showing that the largest contributions to the pro-rich smoking inequality come from years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208697
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The price of violence: Consequences of violent crime in Sweden
Ornstein, Petra - 2017
The connection between violence victimization and long term ill-health is well documented, but evidence is lacking on the causal effects of victimization beyond the time of the immediate injury. The aim of this study is to identify and estimate the longer term consequences of interpersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039275
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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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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460662
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The intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence: Evidence from administrative data
Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin - 2020
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234261
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Misreporting and Misclassification: Implications for Socioeconomic Disparities in Body-mass Index and Obesity
Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lindblad, Ulf - 2012
Body-mass index (BMI), sometimes calculated from objectively measured and sometimes from self-reported weight and height, has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems related to, first, relying on self-reported weight and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208615
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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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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden
Heckley, Gawain; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2014
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 … women. Smoking is universally positively associated with quantity, frequency and intensity of alcohol demand with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208693
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Social Assistance and Mental Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data on Pharmaceutical Consumption
Dackehag, Margareta; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018
This paper examines the short-term effect between take-up of Social Assistance Benefit (SAB) and mental health. Using a panel dataset including rich yearly register data on e.g. income, income sources, unemployment and types of pharmaceutical consumption for over 140,000 Swedes 2006-2012, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208802