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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income

Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008

This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...

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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate in life: Evidence based on inidviduals born at different stages of the business cycle

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

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Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases

Groot, Wim; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; Plug, Erik - 2002

This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income (WFI) is applied to calculate the compensating income variation of health impairments. We believe that this...

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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life: evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business c...

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008

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The long-term effects of hospitalization on health care expenditures: An empirical analysis for the young-old population

Torrini, Irene; Lucifora, Claudio; Russo, Antonio - 2022

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of hospitalization on different types of health care expenditures (HCE). A dynamic DID model with variation in treatment timing is specied and estimated using register data of individuals aged 50-70 residing in Milan, Italy, and observed over the...

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Side Effects of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020

sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …

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Side effects of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020

sanctions cause a short-run deterioration of mental health, possibly due higher stress levels, but this tapers out quickly. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660610

Supporting patients with heart failure with digital therapeutics—A pilot study in Germany

Reif, Simon; Schubert, Sabrina; Stiefel, J.; Husri, F.; … - In: Digital Health 8 (2022), pp. 1-8

life for heart failure patients. Digital therapeutics offer the possibility to make more frequent monitoring and targeted … behavioral interventions available for more people. We conduct a pilot study with 71 patients who were given a smartphone app and … digital therapeutic for heart failure patients. …

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The impact of early life economic conditions on cause-specific mortality during adulthood

Yeung, Gary Y. C.; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, … - 2012

The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during adulthood. The analyses are performed on a unique historical sample of 14,520 Dutch individuals born in 1880-1918, who are followed throughout life. The economic conditions in...

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