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Why a positive link between age and income-related health inequality?
Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2010
This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to discriminate between three types of explanations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208557
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Explaining socioeconomic inequalities in drug utilization for Sweden 2005-2006: Evidence from linked survey and register data
Nordin, Martin; Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2011
This study uses the Swedish register of prescribed drugs, merged with the Survey of Living Conditions (the ULF), to analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in individual drug utilization. Whereas the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208582
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Flat-of-the-curve medicine: A new perspective on the production of health
Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009
Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315484
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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by … propensity score weighting methods. An excess risk of both alcohol-related hospitalization and mortality was found among both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440148
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164129
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Income Receipt and Mortality – Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208699
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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 … to 2007. Our results show that the association between the business cycle and mortality does not depend on the level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208785
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2021
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745111
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Income receipt and mortality: Evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464456
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The role early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J. H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010
Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273982