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Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant … empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by … which housing deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects and the effects of the individual dwelling unit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416204
Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant … empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by … which housing deprivation affects health, namely, neighborhood effects and the effects of the individual dwelling unit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957639
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
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housing and enhance health and education outcomes for disadvantaged groups. These reforms go in the right direction and, in … education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material … reversed since then. These developments have been aggravated by the rising burden of housing costs on low-income households …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
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New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants' health are put at risk by the policies and practices of the government …. Public housing tenants receive unequal treatment when compared to tenants in private housing in obtaining repairs and … to ensure decent, affordable housing for all …
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disaster damages, emergency responses, recovery efforts, public health and hazard readiness in Puerto Rico. The research … compound and cascading disasters. The transdisciplinary approach converges economics, applied anthropology and public health … manifest improved public health …
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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520503
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398992
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender … difference in the effect is due to the reform tightening eligibility particularly with respect to mental health conditions, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390077