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decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …
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on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …
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improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …
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find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …
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Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …
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Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. Object: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by...
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empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391696
empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381274
they market when they face consumers who care about the healthy/unhealthy attributes of the product but incur in emotional/health … that produces the unhealthy food charges a higher price and obtains a larger share of the market unless the emotional/health …
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