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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2021
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694919
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2022 - Revised version, February 2022
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040917
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076150
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The effect of superstition on health : evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month
Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019
Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health outcomes. We study the case of the Taiwanese Ghost month. During this period, which is believed to increase the likelihood of bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956918
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The effect of superstition on health : evidence from the Taiwanese ghost month
Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-lun; Liu, Jan-tan - 2019
Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health outcomes. We study the case of the Taiwanese Ghost month. During this period, which is believed to increase the likelihood of bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964836
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Variability and strictness in COVID-19 government response : a macro-regional assessment
Donadelli, Michael; Gufler, Ivan; Kizys, Renatas; … - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 6 (2022), pp. 1-25
We examine the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical government interventions (NPIs) against COVID-19. In particular, we focus on the impact of strictness and variability in government interventions on the reproduction rate (Rt) and the number of new deaths (per million of inhabitants) in five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429138
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How season of birth affects health and aging
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018
We investigate how the season of birth affects human health and aging. For this purpose, we use five waves of the … Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index for 21 European … non-linear regression we find that the season effect increases with age suggesting that the speed of aging is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878998
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Inherited wealth and demographic aging
Onder, Harun; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016
distributed if aging is driven by a drop in fertility. In comparison, the effect of increasing longevity on their distribution in … first attempts to shed light on how demographic aging could shape this role. We show that, in the absence of retirement … annuities, or for a given level of annuitization, both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility should reduce the inherited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011499894
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Demographic transition, human capital and economic growth in China
Bairoliya, Neha; Miller, Ray - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 127 (2021), pp. 1-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668866
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Twin Transitions
Aksan, Anna-Maria; Chakraborty, Shankha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We provide a new explanation for sub-Saharan Africa’s slow demographic and economic change. In a model where children die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258348