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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify … children according to overweight for BMI, weight for age, and weight for height measures. For BMI, the probability of a child …
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With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation … and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this … market shocks during severe recessions affect men's body mass index (BMI) and health-related behaviors. We use growth curve …
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Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...
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We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867978
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census data, I estimate difference-in-differences regressions that exploit variation across counties in recession severity and across cohorts in age at the time of the recession. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022789