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How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Regions? A Comparative Analysis of the EU and ASEAN
Jetin, Bruno - 2021
he COVID-19 pandemic calls for a collective response at the global and regional level. Otherwise, some nations may be left behind and the potential for the contagion to return remains high. As advanced regional blocs, the EU and ASEAN have a major responsibility to their members for coordinating...
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Minimum legal drinking age and the social gradient in binge drinking
Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021
morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal access to alcohol increases the frequency and intensity of …
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Unemployment: The silent epidemic
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017
This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of...
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A complementary micro Coronavirus model under uncertainty and utility
Gander, James P. - 2020
coronavirus models. The micro model consists of two functions, a risk averse utility function depending on wellness and a wellness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269247
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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 … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …. The findings support previous evidence of increased risks of alcohol-related morbidity/mortality following involuntary job …
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
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Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; von Hinke … - 2017
There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical, while others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...
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Is it the way you live or the job you have? Health effects of lifestyles and working conditions
Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2017
This paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each...
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Surveillance of chronic diseases: Challenges and strategies for India
Mishra, Udaya S.; Irudaya Rajan, Sebastian; Joe, William; … - 2016
This paper describes the status, challenges and scope for strengthening surveillance of chronic disease risk factors, morbidities and mortality in India. We draw upon the surveillance experience of four selected States of India namely Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Kerala and Tamil Nadu to understand...
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