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Does Job Loss Cause Ill Health

Table 3 shows the estimated average effect of job loss on health for laid-off persons. Column 1 to column 4 show estimation results for different sets of … See more

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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD …

WebThis paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In …

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Does Commuting Affect Health

WebSince the literature has found that commuting is often related to higher levels of fatigue (Lyons and Chatterjee 2008) and objective and subjective levels of stress …

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Copayments in the German Health System: Does it …

WebThis paper examines the effect of copayments on doctor visits using the German health care reform of 2004 as a natural experiment. In January 2004, copayments of 10 euros …

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The Global Demography of Aging: Facts, …

WebBy 2020, this number is projected to rise to 1 billion, by 2050 to 2 billion, and by 2100 to 3 billion. The number of people aged 80+, or the “oldest old,” grew markedly from 14 …

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Health and Economic Development: Evidence

WebThis paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing …

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DIION PAPER ERIE

WebThe positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three …

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Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers …

Web2 In most agency health-care studies the doctor-patient relationship has been examined and therefore only the doctor was defined as the agent. Nurses are the primary care-givers in …

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Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on …

WebOur results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the affected population by 3 percent. We …

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The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence …

WebThese in turn act as channels from pension income to health of the Chinese rural elderly. JEL Classification: H55, I12, I38, J14. Keywords: pension income, health, channels, …

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Disease and Development Revisited

WebDisease and Development Revisited1. Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their …

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Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A …

WebReception of a New Approach in Economics. The economics of happiness as an area in economics developed so far as a strongly empirical endeavor. It is spurred by the direct …

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Life Expectancy and the Environment

Web3.6. This kind of dynamics results from the two-sided feedback between life expectancy and the environment, described by mt = m( t) and t = (et), respectively. In this framework, a …

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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: …

WebHealth, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China*. Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding …

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Population Aging in India: Facts, Issues, and Options

Web4. Population Aging and Gender Issues. Accompanying the aging of the Indian population is increasing feminization in older age groups, which brings its own unique issues and …

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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the

WebEast Germans experienced a substantial increase in real income between 1991 and 2002, and reported a considerable rise in their life satisfaction over the same period. FIGURE …

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in …

WebABSTRACT. Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries*. This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of …

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The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental …

WebTanielian and Joycox (2008) estimate. the two-year, per-person, health care cost of PTSD to be between $5,904 and $10,298. Our preferred marginal effect of combat-induced …

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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness

Web4 OBRA90—capture most of the EITC’s positive health effects. For example, CES-D scores for married mothers improved nearly 15 percent, while those for unmarried mothers …

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