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A decomposition analysis for socioeconomic inequalities in health status associated with the COVID-19 diagnosis and related symptoms during Brazil's first wave of infections

França, Natália Cecília de; Lima Campêlo, Guaracyane; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 251-264

the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … higher income levels. When considering symptoms similar to a COVID-19 infection, inequality practically disappears. Among …

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Racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths and years of life lost in Connecticut : an examination of aggregation biases in COVID-19 analyses

Krumel, Thomas; Fiala, Nathan; Goodrich, Corey - 2020

Using a novel dataset provided by the Connecticut Department of Health (CTDoH), this manuscript shows the necessity for and added utility from analyzing disaggregated COVID-19 outcome data for applied research. Connecticut is currently ranked the fourth highest state in death rates per 100,000...

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Deregulation in a Time of Pandemic : Does Pollution Increase Coronavirus Cases or Deaths?

Persico, Claudia - 2020

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about whether increases in pollution could cause...

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Assessing Longevity Inequality in the U.S : What Can be Said about the Future?

Li, Han - 2020

This paper investigates longevity inequality across U.S. states by modelling and forecasts mortality rates via a …-ahead mortality rates at both national-level and state-level up to 2027. We found that the geographical inequality in the longevity …

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Healthy Life Expectancy in China : Modeling and Implications for Public and Private Insurance

Li, Han - 2020

Already home to 23% of the global elderly population, China will experience further demographic change in the coming decades. To address the consequences of population ageing, the Chinese government is implementing major social insurance reforms and promotes the development of private insurance...

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Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality : A Structural Approach

Bijwaard, Govert - 2017

Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both depend on cognitive ability. We analyze the education-mortality gradient at ages 18-63 using Swedish...

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Decomposing Health Inequality in the EU

Mazeikaite, Gintare - 2017

find regional variation in the decomposition results. The analysed factors explain up to a third of the health inequality …

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Mortality in Midlife for Subgroups in Germany

Haan, Peter - 2019

Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In...

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Global Inequality in Length of Life : 1950–2015

Jordá, Vanesa - 2017

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

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The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings : Distributional Implications for the Pension System

Haan, Peter - 2017

This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and...

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