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Social capital as disease prevention
Bartolini, Stefano - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847580
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The gender gap in mortality : how much is explained by behavior?
Schünemann, Johannes; Strulik, Holger; Trimborn, Timo - 2016
health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011516012
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The gender pay gap in mortality : how much is explained by behavior?
Schünemann, Johannes - In: Essays on health and macroeconomics, (pp. 5-27). 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159844
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515874
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011
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Health selection and the effect of smoking on mortality
Adda, Jérôme; Lechene, Valérie - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 115 (2013) 3, pp. 902-931
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009778313
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The effect of college education on health and mortality : evidence from Canada
Lacroix, Guy; Laliberté-Auger, Francois; Michaud, … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948545
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The effect of college education on health and mortality : evidence from Canada
Lacroix, Guy; Lalibertée-Auger, Francois; Michaud, … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948598
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The complex effects of retirement on health : retirement offers the potential for improved health, yet also creates the risk of triggering bad health behavior
Kuhn, Andreas - 2018
foster improvements in retirees’ health. However, retirement also bears the risk that retirees suffer from the loss of daily … or cause a deterioration of retirees’ health, or eventually have no effect on it at all. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011808818
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The effect of college education on health and mortality : evidence from Canada
Lacroix, Guy; Laliberté-Auger, Francois; Michaud, … - 2019
We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140100