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paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
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paternal death on childrens school enrollment, educational attainment, and health in Indonesia, then compare them to the effect … significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among …
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Bad health can severely disrupt a person's life. We apply matching estimators to examine how changes in subjective … health status as well as different (objective) conditions of bad health affect subjective well-being. The strongest effect is … cancer. We also take into account differences in "Big Five" personality traits. Adaptation to health impairments depends …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …
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This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of early-life conditions. The empirical...
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A number of studies have examined the relationship between tax collection and various demographic variables. However, until recently most of those studies have involved a United States sample population. The Internal Revenue Service provides demographic data for researchers on a regular basis....
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