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Poor Health Reporting? Using Vignettes to Recover the Health Gradient by Wealth
Rossouw, Laura; d'Uva, Teresa Bago; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662529
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Poor health reporting? : using vignettes to recover the health gradient by wealth
Rossouw, Laura; Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621489
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Unemployment and health: a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012664291
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Job Insecurity, Debt Burdens and Individual Health
Blázquez Cuesta, Maite; Budría, Santiago; Moro-Egido, … - 2019
Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141299
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Beyond access to basic services: Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique for the 2002-14 period, covering 258,431...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146528
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Unemploymentand health : a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665594
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Beyond access to basic services : perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique for the 2002-14 period, covering 258,431...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003830
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Job insecurity, debt burdens and individual health
Blázquez Cuesta, Maite; Budría, Santiago; Moro-Egido, … - 2019
Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011-2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding this question, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121348
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345387
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Gender gaps in pensions and health: Germany, France, and Denmark
Haan, Peter - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 43, pp. 436-442
This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to …-specific differences in depressive symptoms follow a similar pattern as the gender pension gap: Denmark has the lowest difference between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743611