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Can heterogeneity in reporting behavior explain the gender gap in self-assessed health status?

Basar, Dilek; Soytas, Mehmet A. - 2018

This paper explains the gender differences in self-assessed health status by providing a theoretical identification mechanism through a dynamic structural model which allows for heterogeneity in discount factors of individuals. Theoretical predictions are empirically tested and estimation...

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Birth order, parental health investment, and health in childhood

Pruckner, Gerald J.; Schneeweis, Nicole; Schober, Thomas; … - 2019

In 2012, a labour market reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

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Parental beliefs about returns to child health investments

Biroli, Pietro; Boneva, Teodora; Raja, Akash; Rauh, … - 2018

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired in the household. We investigate whether parental beliefs play a role by eliciting beliefs about...

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Life at a premium: considering an end-of-life premium in Value Based Reimbursement.

McCabe, Christopher; Paulden, Mike; O'Mahony, James; … - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2014

The increasingly explicit use of health technology assessment continues to generate substantial public and academic policy debates. The debates are about puzzling issues whose correct resolution is not immediately obvious and the very explicitness of HTA’s use pinpoints the issues and locates...

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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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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 inequalities in health. Such analysis builds on the strong assumption that a health production function can be estimated without substantial bias implying that health is caused...

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Alcohol consumption and harmful drinking: Trends and social disparities across OECD countries

Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2015

Harmful alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of ill health and premature mortality worldwide. This paper … illustrates trends and social disparities in alcohol consumption and harmful drinking in 20 OECD countries. Analyses are based on … individual-level data from national health and lifestyle surveys. Alcohol consumption, on average, remained relatively stable in …

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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior

Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest randomized controlled trial of women's health – which demonstrated in 2002 that long-term Hormone...

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