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An economic theory of depression and its impact on health behavior and longevity

Strulik, Holger - 2018

In this paper, I introduce depression to the economics of human health and aging. Based on studies from happiness … fundamentals. The model is used to explain how untreated depression leads to unhealthy behavior and adverse health outcomes …: depressed individuals are predicted to save less, invest less in their health, consume more unhealthy goods, and exercise less …

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The effect of religiosity on adolescent risky behaviors

Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Walker, Ian - 2018

health behaviors. This effect is robust to separate estimations for boys and girls and to the control variables used. The …

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The effect of religiosity on adolescent risky behaviors

Mendolia, Silvia; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Walker, Ian - 2018

health behaviors, whatever their combination of personality traits. These effects are robust to separate estimations for boys …

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The Quantile effects of prenatal care on birth weight in Mexico

Gonzalez, Fidel - 2020

Prenatal care has long been identified as an effective strategy to reduce the risk of low birth weight among infants; however, most studies ignore endogeneity and distributional effect of prenatal care on birth weight. Using the instrumental variable quantile regression method, we estimate the...

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Prenatal Care and Birthweight in Mexico

Kumar, Santosh; Gonzalez, Fidel - 2022

We estimate the marginal impact of prenatal care (PNC) on birth outcomes in Mexico using nationally representative data on about 14 million births from 2009 to 2014. Given the possible self selection into PNC, we attempt to identify the causal impact of PNC on birth outcomes by estimating an...

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Life cycle economics with infectious and chronic diseases

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2022

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …

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The effect of a 5-minute body scan mindfulness intervention on healthier food choices

Hopfer, Kaylea B.; Fang, Di; Zabelina, Darya L.; Hung, Yung - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-11

The effects of mindfulness interventions on food purchases and consumption are popular topics. Recent studies focus on mindfulness interventions that target overweight and obese populations. We measure the effects of a guided 5-minute body scan mindfulness intervention on 'healthier' food...

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Beyond Covid : pandemics and the economics of aging and longevity

Strulik, Holger; Grossmann, Volker - 2024

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …

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Education, Information, and Improved Health : Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening

Chen, M. Keith; Lange, Fabian - 2021

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient's demand for health services, and that …

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The Determinants of Provincial Public Health Expenditures in Turkey : Evidence from a Spatial Data Analysis

Yildirim, Julide; öcal, nadir; Alpaslan, Baris - 2023

This study investigates the determinants of provincial public health expenditures for Turkey, employing spatial … econometrics models. To this end, the panel data at NUTS3 level for the period 2009-2019 have been employed. The exploratory … spatial data analysis suggests that real GDP per capita, real health expenditure per capita, and all other socio …

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