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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden
Dahl, Christian M.; Hansen, Casper W.; Jensen, Peter S.; … - 2023
This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long-term outcomes of school children. Using the universe of death certificates from 1914-1920 and newly-collected data on school closures across 2,100 districts, we conduct...
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Industrialization and the fertility decline
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility decline. Exploiting exogenous source of regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526716
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Industrialization and the fertility decline
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: August 26th, 2015
The research provides the first empirical examination of the hypothesized effect of industrialization on the fertility decline. Exploiting exogenous source of regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that industrialization was a major catalyst in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333033
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Do floods have permanent effects? : evidence from the Netherlands
Husby, Trond G.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Hofkes, Marjan W.; … - 2013
This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in … 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population … positive effect on population growth. As a result, there has been an increase in population in flood prone areas. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224822
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Do Floods Have Permanent Effects? Evidence from the Netherlands
Husby, Trond - 2013
This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in … 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population … positive effect on population growth. As a result, there has been an increase in population in flood prone areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074688
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076150
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Evolution Of Sex Gap In Life Expectancy Across High-Income Countries : Universal Patterns And Country-Specific Attributes
Vergeles, Marina - 2021
The sex gap in life expectancy (LE) at birth is currently narrowing in all high-income countries. Previous research on Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely responsible for both widening and subsequent narrowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313198
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How Do Neighboring Populations Affect Local Population Change over Time?
Han, Mengjie; Håkansson, Johan; Rönnegård, Lars - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2013
-producing society. Parallel with this social transformation, major population changes took place. In this study, we analyse how local … population changes are affected by neighbouring populations. To do so we use the last 200 years of local population change that … redistributed population in Sweden. We use literature to identify several different processes and spatial dependencies in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640738
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Globalization Economic, Social and Moral Implications
Andrei, Liviu - 2017
The International Conference GLOBALIZATION Economic, Social and Moral Implications was organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies, “Athenaeum” University of Bucharest, Institute for Economic Forecasting Romanian Academy, Scientia Moralitas Research Institute and The...
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