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Effect of measles outbreak on vaccination uptake
Schober, Thomas - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and compare them with a control group of earlier-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928887
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Effect of measles outbreak on vaccination uptake
Schober, Thomas - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a measles outbreak on vaccination uptake in Austria, using administrative data with individual-level information on childhood vaccinations. I define a treatment group of children affected by the outbreak, and compare them with a control group of earlier-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993695
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Long-Term Effects of Diabetes Prevention : Evaluation of the M.O.B.I.L.I.S. Program for Obese Persons
Haeussler, Jan; Breyer, Friedrich - 2013
In response to the growing burden of obesity, public primary prevention programs against obesity have been widely recommended. Several studies estimated the cost effects of diabetes prevention trials for different countries and found that diabetes prevention can be cost-effective. Nevertheless,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153035
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Do National Cancer Screening Guidelines Reduce Mortality?
Leive, Adam; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
The effectiveness of population-level cancer screening is a salient issue in health policy that remains unresolved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159812
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Sexually Transmitted Infections, Behavior Change and the Hiv/Aids Epidemic
Oster, Emily F. - 2009
Forty million people are infected with HIV worldwide; twenty-five million of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses the question of why Africa has been so heavily affected by HIV, and what explains the variation within Africa. I present a model that decomposes epidemic level into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029216
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When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up
Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2022
, controlling for demographic, economic, and health-related characteristics of the localities, while including geographic fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332121
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Health Behavior
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 1, pp. 29-54
This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368332
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009510103
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514406
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519886