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Beyond Barker : infant mortality at birth and ischaemic heart disease in older age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; Van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198846
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Beyond Barker : Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age
Baker, Samuel; Biroli, Pietro; van Kippersluis, Hans; … - 2022
first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083691
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Birth, marriage and death : three essays in demographic economics
Rao, Vijayendra - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000863212
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Demographic change and the structure of wages : a demand-theoretic analysis for Brazil
Amaral, Ernesto F. L.; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Potter, … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003580526
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The effect of longevity on schooling and fertility : evidence from the Brazilian demographic and health survey
Soares, Rodrigo Reis - In: Journal of population economics 19 (2006) 1, pp. 71-97
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003296531
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Fertility and development : evidence from Brazil
Potter, Joseph E.; Schertmann, Carl P.; Cavenaghi, Suzana M. - In: Demography : a publication of the Population … 39 (2002) 4, pp. 739-761
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001763844
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Save some, lose some: Biological consequences of an unexpected wage cut
Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
Recent literature exploring fetal shocks has focused on the effects of exogenous, but rather rare and violent events (e.g., military conflicts, natural disasters, terrorist attacks) and found that in utero experience has scaring, life lasting consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321390
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Mind the information gap : fertility rate and use of cesarean delivery and tocolytic hospitalizations in Taiwan
Ma, Ke-zong M.; Norton, Edward C.; Lee, Shoou-yih D. - In: Health economics review 1 (2011) 20, pp. 1-15
Background: Physician-induced demand (PID) is an important theory to test given the longstanding controversy surrounding it. Empirical health economists have been challenged to find natural experiments to test the theory because PID is tantamount to strong income effects. The data requirements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009504860
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Save some, lose some : biological consequences of an unexpected wage cut
Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012 - This version: February, 2012
Recent literature exploring fetal shocks has focused on the effects of exogenous, but rather rare and violent events (e.g., military conflicts, natural disasters, terrorist attacks) and found that in utero experience has scaring, life lasting consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487397
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Remote work, children's health and the racial gap in female wages
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012874455