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We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we ….3% reduction in lifetime hospital stays, 19.7 for specialists). We find that education impacts mortality mostly by delaying the …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of …
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …
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Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in … using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291737
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056645
Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016313
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in … using a unique dataset from Norway, we examine both short-run and long-run outcomes for the same cohorts. We find that birth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757144
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531338
Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288704
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109809