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Investigating survivorship bias: The case of the 1918 flu pandemic
Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2021
Estimates of the effect of fetal health shocks may suffer from survivorship bias. The fetal origins literature … bias is imperative for the evaluation of the 1918 flu pandemic and other fetal health shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012490109
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Investigating survivorship bias: the case of the 1918 flu pandemic
Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2021 - Revised version
Estimates of the effect of fetal health shocks may suffer from survivorship bias. The fetal origins literature … bias is imperative for the evaluation of the 1918 flu pandemic and other fetal health shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488771
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Can natural gas save lives? : evidence from the deployment of a fuel delivery system in a developing country
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2016
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520955
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
Cesur, Resul - 2016
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in the last two decades, triggered by the deployment of natural gas networks. In this paper, we examine the impact of this development on mortality among adults and the elderly. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985288
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242834
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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263327
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Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 and population health : evidence from longitudinally-linked census data
Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Jahanshahi, Babak; … - 2024
Extensive evidence shows exposure to ambient PM2.5 is associated with a wide range of poor health outcomes. But few …, self-rated general health, disability, and all available (eleven) domain-specific health measures in the data. Associations … with poor general health, chronic illness, breathing difficulties, mobility difficulties, and deafness are robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014456212
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Mortality, Fertility, Education and Capital Accumulation in a Simple OLG Economy
Ludwig, Alexander - 2009
We develop a simple overlapping generations model to analytically show that population aging leads to increased educational efforts through a general equilibrium effect. The key mechanism at work in the model is that scarcity of raw labor increases the rate of return to human capital relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157453
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Mortality, fertility, education and capital accumulation in a simple OLG economy
Ludwig, Alexander; Vogel, Edgar - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845853
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The return to education in terms of wealth and health
Strulik, Holger - 2016
literature, which focused on inefficient health behavior of the less educated, we investigate the extent to which the education … delayed through health expenditure. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their return to education. The proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556905