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-Pacific and the Middle East, America and Europe. The study develops a health vulnerability index (HVI) and leverages on an …
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averting the spread. However, these policies may have led to significant changes in public health behaviors. We use Google … habits) related to health behaviors. We employ the differences-in-differences method to determine the link between disease … outbreak, associated intervention policies, and changes in health behavior related searches. Our findings show that school …
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empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
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empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
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empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
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empirically assess if they are time varying. Specifically, we analyse whether health shocks influence individual risk aversion. We … follow an innovative approach and use grip strength data to obtain an objective health shock indicator. In order to account … for the non-random nature of our data we employ regression-adjusted matching. Health shocks are found to increase …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a spouse's health shock on own risk attitudes. A spouse …'s health shock (i.e., the occurrence of a severe disease) can influence own expectations about the probability of falling ill …, a health shock may act as a wake-up call to enjoy life and may increase risk willingness. Using German Socio Economic …
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This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...
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