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Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization

Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 33-50

There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...

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The Effect of College Education on Health and Mortality : Evidence from Canada

Lacroix, Guy - 2020

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among high school graduates may impact their health trajectory,...

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Soil aridification, precipitations, and infant health : evidence from Africa

Lunghi, Jacopo; Malpede, Maurizio; Percoco, Marco - 2023 - This version: May 5, 2023

This study shows how soil aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African countries, we find that infants born in arid areas are...

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Health Care Expenses in Retirement and the Use of Health Savings Accounts

Fronstin, Paul; Salisbury, Dallas - 2004

The new Medicare drug law that was enacted in late 2003 makes two changes that supporters of the law say should make it easier for today's workers to prepare to pay the medical bills they will confront in retirement: prescription drug benefits (the new Medicare Part D) and health savings...

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Heterogeneity in Disease Resistance and the Impact of Antibiotics in the US

Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We hypothesize that the impact of antibiotics is moderated by a population's inherent (genetic) resistance to infectious disease. Using the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937, we show that US states that are more genetically susceptible to infectious disease saw larger declines in their...

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health : What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors....

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Fiscal Implications of Ageing: Projections of Age-Related Spending

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Antolín, Pablo; Oxley, Howard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

demographic developments for all countries. Recent reforms to pension systems have partly offset the impact on spending of an …

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How Should Norway Respond to Ageing?

Antolín, Pablo; Suyker, Wim - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

, pension outlays are currently relatively low and substantial financial assets have been accumulated in the Government … Petroleum Fund. However, without reforms, due to the maturing of the pension system, ageing will lead to one of the biggest … increases in pension spending as a share of GDP in OECD countries over the next 50 years. This paper thus, after exploring the …

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How Will Ageing Affect Finland?

Antolín, Pablo; Oxley, Howard; Suyker, Wim - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

will have on public finances: the cost of the pension system will increase by a third; health care spending and the cost of …

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Coping with Population Ageing in the Netherlands

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

OECD countries to meet these pressures because it has a large, funded occupational pension system in place. This advantage …

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