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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …. The findings support previous evidence of increased risks of alcohol-related morbidity/mortality following involuntary job …
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282563
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Health status, functional limitations and disability : changes in Poland
Golinowska, Stanisława; Sowa, Agnieszka Ewa - 2012
overview of the available data and indicators on health status, morbidity and disability. It presents the changes in the level …
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Impact of Temperature on Morbidity : New Evidence from China
Agarwal, Sumit; Qin, Yu; Shi, Luwen; Wei, Guoxu; Zhu, … - 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between temperature and hospitalization in China. Using inpatient visit claims of two major public insurance schemes covering 47 cities in 28 provinces for three years, we see a 7.3% increase in hospital admissions on days on which the average temperature...
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Combatting Covid-19 : on relative performance of the Indian States
Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020
The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...
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On the way to good health? : rural roads and morbidity in upland Orissa
Bell, Clive; Dillen, Susanne van - 2015 - This version: September, 2015
This paper investigates the effects of India’s rural roads program (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households …
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Health and economic growth
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2018
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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Valuing Morbidity : An Integration of the Willingness-to-Pay and Health-Status Literatures
Johnson, F. Reed; Fries, Erin E.; Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2012
difficult, given the relatively small number of morbidity-valuation studies available. By combining both the economic and health … literature, this paper offers an alternative approach to morbidity valuation and provides estimates for a wide range of short …
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The Midlife Crisis
Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...
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