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Scandinavian long-term care financing
Karlsson, Martin; Iversen, Tor; Øien, Henning - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2010
In this paper, we compare and analyse the systems for financing long-term care for older people in the Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The three countries share common political traditions of local autonomy and universalism, and these common roots are very apparent when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008553052
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Education and health : long-run effects of peers, tracking and years
Fischer, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Heckley, Gawain; … - 2019
We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform … current health. Differencing the effects of the reforms shows significant differences in the estimated impacts, suggesting … that de-tracking and subsequent peer effects resulted in worse health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119707
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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580817
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515874
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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2019
We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010842
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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2017
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011708489
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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings : Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979455
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution : Implications of Climate Change
Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014
ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … heat significantly increases hospitalizations and deaths. Extreme cold has a negligible effect on population health. High … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat-health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061047
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Infant Health and Longevity : Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023780