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Empirical essays on the long-term consequences of early infant conditions for health, productivity, and family formation
Walliczek, Katharina - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123115
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988454
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339647
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829695
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Individiual mortality and macroeconomic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001901981
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001883096
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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 - 2014
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable … estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067086
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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 - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable … estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510103