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Monetizing illness: The influence of disability assistance priming on how we evaluate the health symptoms of others

O'Brien, Rourke L. - In: Social Science & Medicine 128 (2015) C, pp. 31-35

For low-income families in the United States disability assistance has emerged as a critical income support program in …) in May 2013, I find that respondents who are primed to consider the existence of disability assistance are less likely to … this measure was found to partially mediate the effect of the disability assistance prime. These findings have important …

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Low-skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-use Data

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - 2013

This paper uses several decades of US time-diary surveys to assess the impact of low-skilled immigration, through lower prices for commercial child care, on parental time investments. Using an instrumental variables approach that accounts for the endogenous location of immigrants, we find that...

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The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour: Evidence from a natural experiment in England

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I exploit exogenous variation in the likelihood to obtain any sort of academic degree between January- and February-born individuals for 13 academic cohorts in England. For these cohorts compulsory schooling laws interacted with the timing of the CGE and O-level exams to change the probability...

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A note on the causal link between education and health: Evidence from the German short school years

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

I exploit exogenous changes in school year length in Germany in 1966 and 1967 to study the causal effect of education on health. Controlling for cohort, school track and Federal states fixed effects, which fully control for the assignment into treatment, reveals no differences in body weight,...

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Intensive Mothering and Well-being: The Role of Education and Child Care Activity

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2016

The ideology of intensive mothering, whereby mother's time is thought of as crucial for child development, continues to be the dominant cultural framework in the United States. Yet there is little evidence about how mothers differ in their child care experiences from large representative...

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Intensive mothering and well-being : the role of education and child care activity

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2016

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The future of the elderly population health status : filling a nnowledge gap

Atella, Vincenzo; Belotti, Federico; Daejung, Kim; … - 2020 - This draft: June 18, 2020

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The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour: Evidence from a natural experiment in England

Braakmann, Nils - 2010

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Low-skilled Immigration and Parenting Investments of College-educated Mothers in the United States: Evidence from Time-use Data

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sevilla, Almudena - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

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The effects of medical school on health outcomes: Evidence from admission lotteries

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; de Wolf, Inge - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 4, pp. 698-707

This paper estimates the effects of attending medical school on health outcomes by exploiting that admission to medical school in the Netherlands is determined by a lottery. Among the applicants for medical school, people who attended medical school have on average 1.5 more years of completed...

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