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Don’t Go Breaking your Heart: Do Economic Upturns Really Increase Heart Attack Mortality?
Svensson, Mikael - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2006
Several recent papers in the literature have found that short-term economic upturns are bad for your health (a pro …-cyclical effect). In this paper I explore the relationship between business cycles and incidence and mortality in acute myocardial … panel data estimations indicate that the business cycle effect is insignificant on overall rates of incidence and mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051638
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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?
Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - 2022
historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078695
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Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21 : Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?
Mulligan, Casey B.; Arnott, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
historic, yet largely unacknowledged, health emergency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334323
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Mortality and survivors' consumption
Grimm, Michael - 2006
The literature suggests that in developing countries illness shocks at the household level can have a negative and severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295996
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Mortality and Survivors' Consumption
Grimm, Michael - 2006
In developing countries illness shocks can have a severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a household member does not only induce direct costs such as medical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324240
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The HIV Anticaptory Saving Motive : An Empirical Analysis in South Africa
van de Kuilen, Gijs - 2007
This paper studies the effect of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on saving behaviour. Two important characteristics of HIV result in opposing forces on savings: mortality increases, which reduces savings, and long-term illness risk increases, which enhances savings. We use a two period life-cycle model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729182
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Testing Rational Addiction : When Lifetime is Uncertain, One Lag is Enough
Dragone, Davide - 2018
The rational addiction model is usually tested by estimating a linear second-order difference Euler equation, which may produce unreliable estimates. We show that a linear first-order difference equation is a better alternative. This empirical specification is appropriate under the reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922855
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The downward spiral
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022
There have been more than 500,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2000. 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887735
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Testing rational addiction : when lifetime is uncertain, one lag is enough
Dragone, Davide; Raggi, Davide - 2018
The rational addiction model is usually tested by estimating a linear second-order difference Euler equation, which may produce unreliable estimates. We show that a linear first-order difference equation is a better alternative. This empirical specification is appropriate under the reasonable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813595
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Mortality and survivors' consumption
Grimm, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006
The literature suggests that in developing countries illness shocks at the household level can have a negative and severe impact on household income. Few studies have so fare examined the effects of mortality. The major difference between illness and mortality shocks is that a death of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082699