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Sibling spillovers and the choice to get vaccinated : evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Humlum, Maria Knoth; Morthorst, Marius Opstrup; … - 2022

We investigate the effects of the introduction of a population-wide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program on the vaccine take-up of the targeted group of 15-year-old girls and their older sisters. For identification, we rely on a regression discontinuity design and high-quality Danish...

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Socioeconomic inequality of diabetes patients' health care utilization in Denmark

Sortsø, Camilla; Lauridsen, Jørgen; Emneus, Martha; … - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 21, pp. 1-22

individual patient data from several national registers to be linked. A concentration index approach with decomposition into …

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Pre- and post-birth components of intergenerational persistence in health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; … - 2019

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...

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Long-run improvements in human health : steady but unequal

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2018

There exists a steady trend at which later born cohorts, at the same age, are healthier than earlier born cohorts. We show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find...

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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis

Gerdtham, Ulf-G; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012

The concentration index and decomposition analysis are commonly used in economics to measure and explain socioeconomic … decomposition literature by applying a twin design to standard decomposition analysis of socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden …. The twin-based decomposition estimates, which control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level, are much lower in …

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Doctors, patients and the racial mortality gap

Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 895-908

Research in the health sciences reports persistent racial differences in health care access, utilization, and outcomes. This study investigates three potential sources of these disparities – differential quality of care, physician discrimination, and patient response to therapy. It uses a...

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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China: A Decomposition Method

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Socio-economic inequalities in tobacco consumption of the older adults in China : a decomposition method

Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Su, Min; Wang, Xiao; Li, Dan; … - 2018

its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration …

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Obesity inequality and the changing shape of the bodyweight distribution in China

Nie, Peng; Ding, Lanlin; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2018

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyses changes in bodyweight (BMI and waist circumference) distributions between 1991 and 2011 among adults aged 20+ in China. To do so, we quantify the source and extent of temporal changes in bodyweight and then...

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Universal Credit: Welfare Reform and Mental Health

Brewer, Mike; Dang, Thang; Tominey, Emma - 2022

The UK Universal Credit (UC) welfare reform simplified the benefits system whilst strongly incentivising a return to sustainable employment. Exploiting a staggered roll-out, we estimate the differential effect of entering unemployment under UC versus the former system on mental health. Groups...

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