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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of … the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing … individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany's ever-growing prevalence of illicit drugs within …
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
Tauchmann, Harald - 2008
In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By … analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295265
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64? The Health Impact of Caregiving
de Zwart, P.L.; Bakx, P.; van Doorslaer, E.K.A. - 2016
Informal care may substitute for formal long-term care that is often publicly funded or subsidized. The costs of informal caregiving are borne by the caregiver and may consist of worse health outcomes and, if the caregiver has not retired, worse labor market outcomes. We estimate the impact of...
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310694
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269442
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Health behaviors and education in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Karaoglan, Deniz - 2014
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445848
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Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms
Caroli, Eve; Weber-Baghdiguian, Lexane - 2016
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we...
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The dynamics of Income-related health inequality among US children
Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal; Song, Jingya - 2011
We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 waves of the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of...
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A reassessment of the cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy in Sweden: Results based on the Women's Health Initiative randomised controlled trial
Zethraeus, Niklas; Borgström, Fredrik; Jönsson, Bengt; … - 2004
The cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) based on a societal perspective is reassessed based on new medical evidence found in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Within a model framework using an individual state transition model the cost-effectiveness of 50-60 year old women...
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Predicting survival in cost-effectiveness analyses based on clinical trials
Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Zethraeus, Niklas - 2001
This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of a RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival...
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