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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321113
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282303
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence : a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 … mother is well-educated. -- Early-life conditions ; migration ; parental education ; adult health ; height retardation ; age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831918
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings : evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273289
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings : evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519851
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Birth weight in the long-run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295561
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Health and unemployment during macroeconomic crises
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295569
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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings : Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers
Lundborg, Petter - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118000
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence : A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160301
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Birth Weight in the Long-Run
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016309