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Health status, functional limitations and disability: Changes in Poland
Golinowska, Stanislawa; Sowa, Agnieszka - 2012
The social changes in Poland over the last two decades have had an impact on many dimensions of life, including on important elements of human capital, such as health and functional and instrumental daily activities. This article contains an overview of the available data and indicators on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430909
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2022 - Revised version, February 2022
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040917
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Dark passage: mental health consequences of parental death
Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021
This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children's mental health. Combining several nationwide register-based data for Finnish citizens born between 1971 and 1986, we use an event study methodology to analyze hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518237
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The career costs of children's health shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2021
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694919
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Family ruptures and intergenerational transmission of stress
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2014
The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472734
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Why is the World Getting Older? The Influence of Happiness on Mortality
Guven, Cahit - 2009
happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, we find that happiness extends life expectancy. Ten percent increase in happiness decreases probability of death by four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158722
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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2019
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265283
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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2019 - Revised version May 2019
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012000389
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From pain patient to junkie : an economic theory of painkiller consumption and its impact on wellbeing and longevity
Strulik, Holger - 2018
In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit accumulation with the theory of addiction. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a persistent negative shock to lifetime utility that can be treated by pain relief medication. Some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946904
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Why is the world getting older? : the influence of happiness on mortality
Guven, Cahit; Saloumidis, Rudolph - 2009
happiness levels around the world suggesting that happiness might be one of the causes behind the decline in mortality. We … investigate the relationship between happiness and mortality using the German Socio-Economic Panel. We consider doctor visits …, we find that happiness extends life expectancy. 10 percent increase in happiness decreases probability of death by four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635276