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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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The "red herring" after 20 years : ageing and health care expenditures
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019
that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124855
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Aging in the USA : similarities and disparities across time and space
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Erel, Devin; Strulik, Holger - 2019
particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and women and across American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105067
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How we fall apart : similarities of human aging in 10 European countries
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
. Interestingly, these differences follow a particular regularity (akin to the compensation effect of mortality). They suggest an age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590290
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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Hungry children age faster
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722162
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339417
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667622
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries : missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996462
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Health care expenditures and longevity : is there a Eubie Blake effect?
Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012
due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence …, rising longevity - through falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies … over the period 1997-2009. Using (dynamic) panel data models, we find that age, mortality and five-year survival rates have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579344