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Mortality and the business cycle : evidence from individual and aggregated data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; 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 whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664513

Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334361

Does the size of the effect of adverse events at high ages on daily-life physical functioning depend on the economic conditions around birth?

Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - 2014

This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Ambient temperature during gestation and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915 to 2002

Bruckner, Tim A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Smith, Kirk R.; … - 2014

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...

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The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income : evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age

Davies, Neil M.; Dickson, Matt; Smith, George Davey; … - 2019

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … distribution. We find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes …

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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014

health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …

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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2014

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …

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The effects of day care on health during childhood : evidence by age

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Siflinger, Bettina - 2020

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various … aspects of physical health, at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of comprehensive individual-level out …-patient and inpatient health care register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008 merged with other population register data …

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Mortality and the business cycle : evidence from individual and aggregated data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796462

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