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Early Life Adversity, Biological Adaptation, and Human Capital
Fink, Günther; Venkataramani, Atheendar; Zanolini, Arianna - 2017
Early life shocks result in physiological changes that allow infants and children to adapt to surrounding environments. We examine the implications of one form of biological adaptation - immune system learning - for human capital formation. Using two case studies, where interventions to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130925
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A methodological rejoinder to "Does income relate tohealth due to psychosocial or material factors?"
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2020
There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison group yields an unfavorable outcome, the individual is dismayed and experiences stress that impinges negatively on his health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213474
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2013
in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … pension benefits as an insurance against old age poverty. While such a reform raises a concern about an increase in abuse of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128218
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2013
in order to analyze the health-related risks of consumption and old age poverty. In particular, the model includes a … pension benefits as an insurance against old age poverty. While such a reform raises a concern about an increase in abuse of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189439
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2019 - [Updated version]
Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The … annual consumption of about 10% and account for more than two-thirds of the cases of old-age poverty. Annuity markets that … decrease old-age poverty. A policy analysis of minimum pension benefits indicates that a means test mitigates the associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999473
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2019 - Updated version
Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The … annual consumption of 9.8% and account for more than two-thirds of the cases of old-age poverty. Annuity markets that account … decrease old-age poverty. A policy analysis of minimum pension benefits indicates that a means test mitigates the associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995887
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Economic reasoning on the correlation between life expectancy and economic development : exploring alternative routes
Wittmann, Nadine - 2014
Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between a country's gross domestic product and life expectancy is widely discussed. An important aspect that keeps resurfacing in discussions on why the relationship between the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425989
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Is the Right to Health Compatible with Sustainability?
Reidpath, Daniel - 2017
There are fundamental public health challenges and trade–offs that need to be confronted for the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health and the sustainability agendas to be compatible. The trade–offs arise because, at a population level, the highest attainable standard of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971833
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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665336
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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632752