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Poor health reporting? : using vignettes to recover the health gradient by wealth
Rossouw, Laura; Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2017
like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …
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Unemploymentand health : a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...
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Beyond access to basic services : perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique for the 2002-14 period, covering 258,431...
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Health and Inequality in Health in the Nordic Countries
Christiansen, Terkel - 2017
curves nearly follow the diagonal implying almost no income - or education related inequality in self-assessed health …
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Childhood health shocks, comparative advantage, and long-term outcomes : evidence from the last Danish polio epidemic
Gensowski, Miriam; Nielsen, Torben Heien; Nielsen, Nete Munk - 2018
A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This paper demonstrates that the adversity of childhood physical disability can be mediated by individuals' educational and occupational choices, which reflect their comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880198
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Gender gaps in pensions and health : Germany, France, and Denmark
Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; Rowold, Carla - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 43, pp. 436-442
This study quantifies gender-specific differences in retirement income in Germany, Denmark, and France. We show that … the "gender pension gap" in Germany is higher than in France and much higher than in Denmark. This ranking is similar to …-specific differences in depressive symptoms follow a similar pattern as the gender pension gap: Denmark has the lowest difference between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739858
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Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes : Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic
Gensowski, Miriam - 2018
A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This paper demonstrates that the adversity of childhood physical disability can be mediated by individuals' educational and occupational choices, which reflect their comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915316
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Neighborhoods and youth health: Everybody needs good neighbors?
Björkegren, Evelina - 2018
There are large differences in health across neighborhoods in Sweden. To try to answer if there is a causal link between neighborhood conditions in childhood and youth health, I apply two different empirical strategies. First, I use population wide data on families living in different areas in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039291
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Distributionally Sensitive Measurement and Valuation of Population Health
Da Costa, Shaun; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Gestel, Raf - 2023
We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both age-specific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary...
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Income inequality and health: Evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We assess the effect of income inequality on life expectancy by performing separate estimations for developed and … developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … income inequality increases life expectancy in developed countries. By contrast, the effect on life expectancy is …
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