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Job loss and health spillovers in the family

Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jenstrom, Laura; … - 2020

A sizable literature documents that displaced workers suffer substantial negative consequences in the labor market and health. These effects may extend to the partner or spouse through household decision-making. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient...

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The health consequence of rising housing prices in China

Xu, Yuanwei; Wang, Feicheng - 2020

China has experienced a rapid boom in real estate prices in the last few decades, leading to a substantial increase in living costs and heavy financial burdens on households. Using an instrumental variable approach, this paper exploits spatial and temporal variation in housing price appreciation...

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A multi-label machine learning approach to support pathologist's histological analysis

Azzini, Antonia; Cortesi, Nicola; Marrara, Stefania; … - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 5 (2019) 1, pp. 197-208

This paper proposes a new tool in the field of telemedicine, defined as a specific branch where IT supports medicine, in case distance impairs the proper care to be delivered to a patient. All the information contained into medical texts, if properly extracted, may be suitable for searching,...

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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...

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Alcohol availability and alcohol-attributable mortality : economic implications following a change in sales policy

Stoppel, Relika - 2019

It is commonly known that irresponsible alcohol use can have adverse effects. For some people it results in health … problems, for others in productivity loss, and some experience the worst possible outcome of alcohol misuse: death. This paper … estimates the effect of reduced alcohol sales hours on alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) in Estonia. Using novel mortality …

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States' addiction to sins : sin tax fallacy

Dadayan, Lucy - In: National tax journal 72 (2019) 4, pp. 723-754

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Determinants of access to healthcare : a survey in Istanbul

Paköz, Muhammed Ziya; Yüzer, Mehmet Ali - 2014

Access to healthcare is formed according to the characteristics of the supply and demand. While siting hospitals, ?equity' in access to healthcare should be taken as a basis for all segments of society, and necessary measures should be taken to ensure that vulnerable groups benefit from health...

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Disparity in emergency medical services across Japan

Takimoto, Taro; Sakata, Kazuya; Nakajima, Kazunori; … - 2015

By using a prospective, nation-wide, population-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) database (All-Japan Utstein Registry, January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2012), we examined the disparity in emergency medical services across Japan and found significant disparities among prefectures. By...

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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?

Rao, Ziwei - 2021

This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by innovatively employing population policies in the early 1970s and the sex of the eldest child within families as plausibly exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show...

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The impact of Covid-19 related school policies on students in their final high school years

Sandner, Malte; Anger, Silke; Bernhard, Sarah; … - 2021

This paper sheds light on the impact of the COVID-19 policy measures on a wide set of career expectations, occupational beliefs, and well-being of high-school students in their final grades. For this purpose, we use a unique panel data collection, which surveyed around 6,000 students in their...

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