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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Sibling Spillovers and the Choice to Get Vaccinated : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius; Thingholm, … - 2022

We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...

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Swimming skills around the world : Evidence on inequalities in life skills across and within countries

Borgonovi, Francesca - 2022

Being able to swim empowers individuals to make choices, have agency, and be free to choose core aspects of their life, such as working safely on or near water. It is also associated with lifelong health benefits and reduces the risk of drowning. Using data from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation...

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A hard pill to swallow? : parental health shocks and children's mental health

Glaser, Felix; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2022

Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is restricted to children who experience the health shock...

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Indebted and Overweight : The Link between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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Indebted and overweight : the link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K. - 2012

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Wealth and Health Behavior : Testing the Concept of a Health Cost

Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2014

Wealthier individuals engage in healthier behavior. This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by exploiting both inheritances and lottery winnings to test a theory of health behavior. We distinguish between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of...

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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption : an instrumental variables approach

Mitrou, Francis; Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023

household monetary expenditures on either tobacco or alcohol. The impact is greater for lower educated individuals or children … cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and … intensity of either cigarette or alcohol consumption. Further analysis reveals that mental distress also substantially increases …

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Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Serious Parental Health Shocks

Kristiansen, Ida Lykke - 2020

I show that serious, yet common, parental health shocks in childhood have immediate and lasting effects on mental health and human capital formation for children. Children who experience a parental health shock are more likely to have therapy and take anti-depressant medication following the...

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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper

Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...

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