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Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; den Berg, Gerard … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual’s mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763461
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Individual Mortality and Macro Economic Conditions from Birth to Death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003
health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the individual mortality rate. We … estimate flexible duration models where the individual's mortality rate depends on current conditions, conditions earlier in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005694986
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Crisis agraria y desigualdad nutricional en Extremadura: una primera aproximación antropométrica a los efectos de la guerra y la posguerra
Luján, Antonio M. Linares; Parejo, Francisco M. - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2013
Este trabajo pretende conocer las secuelas que, sobre el estado nutricional neto de los mozos reclutados en Extremadura entre 1926 y 1975, dejaron las crisis alimentarias generadas por la Guerra Civil y por la férrea política de control de precios mantenida por el primer franquismo. Mediante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726361
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Malaria: An early indicator of later disease and work level
Hong, Sok Chul - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 612-632
This study investigates the effect of early-life exposure to malaria on disease and work level in old age over the past one and a half centuries. Using longitudinal lifetime records of Union Army veterans, I first estimate that exposure to a malarial environment in early life (c.1840)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870817
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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910
Logan, Trevon D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the … literacy and health on the migration propensities of African Americans from 1870 to 1910. I find that literacy and health … shocks were strong predictors of migration and the stock of health was not. There were differential selection propensities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718825
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Before and After the Black Death: Money, Prices, and Wages in Fourteenth-Century England
Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005
One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827233
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The Determinants of Mortality
Cutler, David M.; Deaton, Angus; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to … fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 years. At the same time, mortality rates … years. This difference persists despite the remarkable progress in health improvement in the last half century, at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778725
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Distinctively black names in the American past
Cook, Lisa D.; Logan, Trevon D.; Parman, John M. - In: Explorations in Economic History 53 (2014) C, pp. 64-82
We document the existence of a distinctive national naming pattern for African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use census records to identify a set of high-frequency names among African Americans that were unlikely to be held by whites. We confirm the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042832
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Comparing Population Distributions from bin-Aggregated Sample Data: an Application to Historical Height Data from France
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Leblanc, Josée; Sahn, David - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015309
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Comparing population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data: An application to historical height data from France
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Leblanc, Josée; Sahn, David - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547156