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model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349212
first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … for cause-specific mortality. Our analyses show that cardiovascular and cancer mortality risks are related and that not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279361
first year of life appears to significantly increase all-cause mortality risks and cancer mortality risks of older males and … for cause-specific mortality. Our analyses show that cardiovascular and cancer mortality risks are related and that not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282174
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256613
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325582
model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137003
This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … explore exogenous variation in parental education induced by a schooling reform in 1947, which raised the minimum school … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350377
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
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empiricalanalyses and research indicates that these may be affected by endogenous …, state dependent, reporting behaviour. Furthermore, even if an objective health measure is used, it is not likely to be … strictly exogenous to labour market status or labour income. Health and labour market variables are correlatedbecause of …
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