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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior

Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 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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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 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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A hard pill to swallow? Parental health shocks and children's mental health

Glaser, Felix; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2022

Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is restricted to children who experience the health shock...

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Spillover effects of drug safety warnings on health behavior

Daysal, N. Meltem; Orsini, Chiara - 2012

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

Devaux, Marion; Sassi, Franco - 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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Why the rich drink more mot smoke less : the impact of wealth on health behaviors

Kippersluis, Hans van; Galama, Titus J. - 2013

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Indebted and overweight : the link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K. - 2012

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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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Wealth, health, and child development : evidence from administrative data on Swedish lottery players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors - such as the number...

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings : evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...

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