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study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children … effects are mediated primarily through subsequent maternal mental and physical health problems. …
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Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may … attenuate income's positive effects on health, we also analyze the association between income and such health …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981371
Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972451
health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596254
, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … educational attainment as of 2011 but did not influence the gaps in political attainment and health status. The effect of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437033
Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894066
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
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health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of … education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … towards detecting reinforcement both in this paper and in the literature. Our compensation result for health endowment holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852101
We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022846