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Linking Changes in Inequality in Life Expectancy and Mortality : Evidence from Denmark and the United States
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020
inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in … lifestyle-related survivability led inequality to rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828125
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Linking changes in inequality in life expectancy and mortality : evidence from Denmark and the United States
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Nielsen, … - 2020
inequality in the US and the entire rise in Denmark. Cardiovascular mortality declines favored the poor, but differences in … lifestyle-related survivability led inequality to rise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244473
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Mortality inequality : the good news from a county-level approach
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2016
Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458800
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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239013
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The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States : a latent variables analysis
Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Wong, Ashley - 2019
Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133343
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Intergenerational health mobility in the US
Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Wong, Ashley - 2018
Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796131
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The effects of income inequality on BMI and obesity: Evidence from the BRFSS
Volland, Benjamin - 2012
inequality based on tax payments, the present paper analyzes whether changes in income inequality can be considered a determinant …
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Improving the Quality of Long-term Care
Mor, Vincent - In: CESifo DICE Report 08 (2010) 2, pp. 35-39
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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior
Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) - the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health - which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282570