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This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status in adulthood. The influence of social and health characteristics is also considered, whereby characteristics in a generation impacts the health status in the...
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We study the psychosocial determinants of health, and their impact on social inequalities in health in France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital controlling for standard...
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This study uses aggregate panel data on 96 French départements for the period from 1982 to 2002 to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality, controlling for local area and time fixed effects. Consistent with research using data from other countries, we find...
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Les descendants des cadres dirigeants et professions intellectuelles ont-ils une meilleure santé que les descendants d’ouvriers ? Est-ce que la longévité des parents infl uence l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ? Ces deux questions interrogent l’existence d’inégalités des chances...
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This article analyses the role played by childhood circumstances, especially social and family background in explaining health status among older adults. We explore the hypothesis of an intergenerational transmission of health inequalities using the French part of SHARE. As the impact of both...
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Cette recherche explore la forme de relation existante entre probabilité de décès et revenu en France, sur la base d’une étude cas-témoins constituée à partir de deux bases de données fiscales. Les résultats montrent que le risque de décès est fortement corrélé au niveau de...
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Cette recherche explore l’impact de l’instrument de mesure de l’état de santé, sur l’ampleur des inégalités sociales de santé à l’aide d’un modèle d’équations structurelles à variable latente. Nous créons un indicateur synthétique de santé latente à partir de quatre...
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This study investigates the relation between early life conditions and adult obesity in France, using a rich data set collected through the 2003 nationally representative Life History Survey. No salient factor emerged in men, while in women, after controlling for current socio-demographic...
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