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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …
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Income versus prices : how does the business cycle affect food (in)-security?
Bogmans, Christian; Pescatori, Andrea; Prifti, Ervin - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796716
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Demand Cycles and Heterogeneous Conformity Preferences
Baumann, Leonie - 2020
We explore the dynamics of demand for n designs of a good when agents have preferences for (anti-)conformity. Agents differ in their social status and each agent seeks to imitate those of higher status and to distinguish herself from those of lower status, relative to her own status. In each...
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The Downward Spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov chains are estimated from the US data for the college and non–college...
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The impact of the global recession on the health of the people in Asia
Kwon, Soonman; Jung, Youn; Islam, Anwar - In: Poverty and sustainable development in Asia : impacts …, (pp. 405-424). 2010
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The impact of the recession on food insecurity among households who were low income : findings from the 2005-2014 national health and nutrition examination surveys
Lombe, Margaret; Wang, Kaipeng; Chu, Yoosun; Nebbitt, … - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 22 (2018) 4/6, pp. 437-453
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Health, nutrition, and economic crises : approaches to policy in the Third World
Bell, David E. (ed.) - 1988
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
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Does the size of the effect of adverse events at high ages on daily-life physical functioning depend on the economic conditions around birth?
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - 2014
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
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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