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Occupational status and health transitions
Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274669
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Occupational status and health transitions
Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152793
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003
Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262072
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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003
physical health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262242
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Ribar, David - 2011
occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129939
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2021
Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320062
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Deaths rise in good economic times : evidence from the OECD
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2002
physical health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415243
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
Morefield, G. Brant; Ribar, David C.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839270
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Does Paid Sick Leave Facilitate Reproductive Choice?
Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Popovici, Ioana; Ruhm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Unlike most advanced countries, the U.S. does not have a federal paid sick leave (PSL) policy; however, multiple states have adopted PSL mandates. PSL can facilitate healthcare use among women of child-bearing ages, including use of family planning services such as contraception, in-vitro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421226
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Do pensions increase the labor supply of older men?
Ruhm, Christopher J. - In: Journal of public economics 59 (1996) 2, pp. 157-175
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