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Indikatoren für die drei Bereiche Gesundheit, Wirtschaft und Soziales. Die Indikatoren müssen hochfrequent und präzise erfasst …In the current second phase of the pandemic, political crisis management must not only focus on health protection but …" identifies concrete indicators for the three areas of health, economy and social affairs. The indicators must be recorded with …
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A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …
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Relative poverty lines such as one-half of median income have been widely used in poverty comparisons. The U.S. government has also been urged to adopt the notion of relative poverty lines. This paper contributes to the literature by developing statistical inferences for testing poverty measures...
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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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death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper …
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Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...
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This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …
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health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …
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information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …
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