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The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …
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How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well …-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation …
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This study revisits the existing relationship between income inequality and population health by subjecting it to a … battery of empirical testing using different measures of inequality and health outcomes for 33 high-income OECD countries … health outcomes. For the empirical investigation we have adopted panel cointegration analysis to obtain long-run estimates …
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I estimate the effects of U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) housing prices on a variety of health outcomes and … risky health behaviors separately for homeowners and tenants. The constructed dataset consists of information on individuals … their health and negative results for tenants. I also find increases in risky behaviors among tenants associated with …
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This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Exploiting the temporal and spatial variations in economic hardship across provinces, we show that the deep economic...
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The protracted recession in the euro area will continue to be a drag on the economic growth of most CESEE countries in 2013. By and large, those countries are small open economies held hostage to the excessive fiscal austerity pursued in the euro area and the sluggish progress on the part of its...
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multidimensional measure of mental health. We provide evidence that these effects are mediated by fear of job loss and income …
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