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Place of Residence and Health : Empirical Evidence from Italy

Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2012

effect of the place of residence on health status in Italy. The paper shows that alongside the strong effect of individual …In recent years, economic research on the socio-economic determinants of health has significantly grown given the … importance of health for individual wellbeing. Most of the work up to now has focused on the effects of individual socio …

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When Technological Advance Meets Physician Learning in Drug Prescribing

Depalo, Domenico - 2019

The support for scientific investigation in biomedicine depends in part on the adoption of new knowledge into medical practice. We investigate how a technological advance, in the form of a large and influential 2010 randomized controlled study, changed physician practice in statin (a medication...

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When technological advance meets physician learning in drug prescribing

Depalo, Domenico; Bhattacharya, Jay; Atella, Vincenzo; … - 2019

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When Technological Advance Meets Physician Learning in Drug Prescribing

Depalo, Domenico - 2019

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A Comparison of the Relationship between Obesity and Earnings in the U.S. and Germany

Cawley, John H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Lillard, Dean R. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 125 (2005) 1, pp. 119-129

This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are estimated that account for the endogeneity of body weight....

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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons: A multinomial approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...

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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 2009

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …

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Spatial Convergence in Height in East-Central Europe, 1890-1910

Brabec, Marek; Komlos, John - 2007

We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter....

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Flat-of-the-curve medicine: A new perspective on the production of health

Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 …

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Subjective Health Assessments and Active LaborMarket Participation of Older Men: Evidence froma Semiparametric Binary Choice Model withNonadditive Correlated Individual-Specific Ef...

Maurer, Jürgen; Klein, Roger; Vella, Francis - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use panel data from the US Health and Retirement Study 1992-2002 to estimate theeffect of self-assessed health … limitations on active labor market participation of men aroundretirement age. Self-assessments of health and functioning typically … introduce anendogeneity bias when studying the effects of health on labor market participation. Thisresults from justification …

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