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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Aging in the USA : similarities and disparities across time and space
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Erel, Devin; Strulik, Holger - 2019
particular regularity, akin to the compensation effect of mortality. Health deficits converge for men and women and across American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105067
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How we fall apart : similarities of human aging in 10 European countries
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
. Interestingly, these differences follow a particular regularity (akin to the compensation effect of mortality). They suggest an age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590290
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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Hungry children age faster
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722162
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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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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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Wage structure differential and disability in Brazil : underperformance or discrimination?
Castro, Nicole Rennó; Moreira, Gustavo Carvalho; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 20 (2019) 3, pp. 211-228
disabled men? To answer these questions, we used data from a sample of men aged 18-65 working in Brazil's private sector to … policy makers in Brazil when allocating resources to support people with disabilities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171116
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Effects of physical activity on earnings in the Brazilian labor market
Godoy, Marcia Regina; Triches, Divanildo - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 18 (2017) 2, pp. 180-191
This article investigates the effects of physical activity on earnings in the Brazilian labor market, analyzing workers aged between 30 and 50 years. To that end, quantile regression was applied to analyze microdata from the 2008 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD). The results showed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011866395
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Climate change impacts on birth outcomes in Brazil
Pereda, Paula Carvalho; Menezes, Tatiane; Alves, … - 2014
This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential … forecasts for Brazil suggests a possible increase of 305 neonatal deaths annually and, for families in the Primary Care Program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285571