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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015

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 allows us to control for the factors - such as the number...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle

Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains...

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Eliason, Marcus - 2015

The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity … well as the employees who were laid off and a comparison group. These data were merged with information on alcohol … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by …

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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016

To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...

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Parental Influences on Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Lindahl, Mikael - 2016

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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic : Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?

Persico, Claudia - 2020

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...

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Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Haan, Peter - 2019

US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of …

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Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina - 2019

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...

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Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Haan, Peter - 2019

US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870455

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