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To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239591
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide descriptive evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234528
To address the opioid crisis, it is crucial to understand its origins. We provide evidence for the intergenerational transmission of opioid dependence. Our analysis is based on administrative data covering the universe of Austrian births from 1984 to 1990. We consider prescription opioids and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232057
I estimate the effects of U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) housing prices on a variety of health outcomes and … risky health behaviors separately for homeowners and tenants. The constructed dataset consists of information on individuals … their health and negative results for tenants. I also find increases in risky behaviors among tenants associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121737
We examine the extent to which self-reported health measures suffer from reporting bias and then characterize how this … reporting bias affects the estimation of income-related health inequality as measured by the concentration index. We run a … comprehensive set of tests of reporting bias using several self-reported health measures and several clinical measures of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953287
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241623
This paper uses Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects in Germany. We combine rich …-level health dependencies. As dependent variable we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. We find … to 0.35 standard deviations in health. Even 20 years after German reunification, we detect a clear spatial East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475803
A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and the empirical identification of welfare-relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether mandating employee access to paid sick leave has reduced influenza-like-illness (ILI) transmission rates as well...
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health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … psychosocial effect of individual i's low relative income on his health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213174
health. In a recent study, Hounkpatin et al. (2016) conduct an inquiry aimed at deciphering which measure of low relative … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each … the psychosocial effect of individual i’s low relative income on his health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213474