380 results on '"I10"'
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2. Health and economic growth: new evidence from a panel threshold model
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Mohamed Chakroun
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Health ,economic growth ,threshold models ,instrumental variables ,life expectancy ,I10 ,Finance ,HG1-9999 ,Economic theory. Demography ,HB1-3840 - Abstract
AbstractThe paper examines the relationship between health and economic growth using a dynamic panel with threshold effect and endogeneity. The study uses a sample of 136 countries over the period of 1965–2015 and the results indicate that the relationship between health and economic growth is nonlinear. The findings suggest that the impact of health on economic growth is only positive in countries that have attained minimum benchmarks of health improvement. These findings carry significant policy implications. Low-income countries need a comprehensive approach, encompassing multiple factors, such as education enhancement, productivity boost, and entrepreneurship promotion, that go beyond health promotion to foster substantial economic growth. In countries already attaining satisfactory health outcomes, policies prioritizing improved health outcomes, through directing investments towards Research and Development can serve as an effective means to promote sustainable economic growth.
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- 2024
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3. The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Healthcare Utilization: Evidence From Vietnam
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Le, Duc Dung and Giang, Long Thanh
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- 2024
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4. Preference-based utility weights for the Individualized Neuromuscular Quality of Life Questionnaire (INQoL), with a focus on non-dystrophic myotonia (NDM): Preference-based utility weights for the Individualized Neuromuscular Quality of Life Questionnaire…
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Lloyd, Andrew, Rand, Kim, Pike, Cleo, and Ellis, Crispin
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- 2024
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5. A systematic review of unique methods for measuring discount rates
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Lipman, Stefan A. and Attema, Arthur E.
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- 2024
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6. Long-term unemployment subsidies and middle-aged disadvantaged workers’ health.
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Garcia-Pérez, José Ignacio, Serrano-Alarcón, Manuel, and Vall-Castelló, Judit
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This paper examines the labour market and health effects of a non-contributory long-term unemployment (LTU) benefit targeted at middle-aged disadvantaged workers. To do so, we exploit a Spanish reform introduced in July 2012 that increased the age eligibility threshold to receive the benefit from 52 to 55. Our results show that men who were eligible for the benefit experience a reduction in injury hospitalisations by 12.9% as well as a 2 percentage points drop in the probability of a mental health diagnosis. None of the results are significant for women. We document two factors that explain the gender differences: the labour market impact of the reform is stronger for men, and eligible men are concentrated in more physically demanding sectors, like construction. Importantly, we also find evidence of a program substitution effect between LTU and partial disability benefits. Our results highlight the role of long-term unemployment benefits as a protecting device for the (physical and mental) health of middle-aged, low-educated workers who are in a disadvantaged position in the labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. The impacts of working from home on individual health and well-being
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Denzer, Manuel and Grunau, Philipp
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- 2024
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8. Health and Attitudes Toward Bribery: Summaries of 11 Studies
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McGee, Robert W., Benk, Serkan, McGee, Robert W., editor, and Benk, Serkan, editor
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- 2023
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9. Social isolation, health dynamics, and mortality: evidence across 21 European countries.
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Fawaz, Yarine and Mira, Pedro
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SOCIAL isolation , *PANEL analysis , *MORTALITY , *COGNITIVE ability , *COUNTRIES - Abstract
We provide a comprehensive picture of the health effects of social isolation using longitudinal data from 21 European countries. First, using Cox regressions, we find a significant, strong, and robust association between our social isolation index and mortality. The association is much stronger in Eastern European countries. While all of our pooled countries estimates ranged between a 20 and 30% increase in the mortality hazard for the socially isolated that number jumps to 45% for Eastern European countries. We then estimate linear regressions to study the dynamic "value-added" effects of social isolation on health and other mediator outcomes. We find that social isolation at baseline leads to worsening health in subsequent waves along all of the dimensions observed. Up to 13% of the effect of baseline social isolation on mortality can be attributed to the combined one-wave-ahead impact of social isolation on increased frailty, reduced cognitive function, and increased smoking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. The effect of retirement on health and mortality in the United States.
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Xu, Yuanrong
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This paper studies the effect of retirement on health and mortality. In response to increased longevity and tighter public budget constraints, the general trend in developed countries is for Social Security systems to be modified to encourage people to remain in the labor force longer. In this paper, I study the 1983 reforms to the United States Social Security System that raised the retirement age for cohorts born after 1937 to estimate the causal effect of retirement on health and mortality. Combining IV and DID methods, I find that retirement has a positive effect on self-reported bad health and decreases the probability of experiencing limitations in daily activities for men. However, retirement increases the mortality rate by 0.46% for men and 1.4% for women. Heart disease contributes most to the effect on mortality. The different effects on health and mortality point to heterogeneous effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions.
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Dobkin, Carlos, Finkelstein, Amy, Kluender, Raymond, and Notowidigdo, Matthew J
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Patient Safety ,Basic Behavioral and Social Science ,Clinical Research ,Aging ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Generic health relevance ,Adult ,Bankruptcy ,Demography ,Financing ,Personal ,Hospitalization ,Humans ,Insurance ,Health ,Medically Uninsured ,Middle Aged ,Patient Admission ,United States ,D14 ,Health insurance ,I10 ,I13 ,bankruptcy ,consumer finance ,consumption smoothing ,Economics ,Commerce ,Management ,Tourism and Services - Abstract
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance, hospital admissions increase out-of-pocket medical spending, unpaid medical bills and bankruptcy, and reduce earnings, income, access to credit and consumer borrowing. The earnings decline is substantial compared to the out-of-pocket spending increase, and is minimally insured prior to age-eligibility for Social Security Retirement Income. Relative to the insured non-elderly, the uninsured non-elderly experience much larger increases in unpaid medical bills and bankruptcy rates following a hospital admission. Hospital admissions trigger less than 5 percent of all bankruptcies.
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- 2018
12. Behaviour within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines.
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Kowalski, Amanda E
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MAMMOGRAMS ,CLINICAL trials ,CANCER diagnosis ,OVERDIAGNOSIS ,SOCIOECONOMIC status - Abstract
Mammography guidelines have weakened in response to evidence that mammograms diagnose breast cancers that would never eventually cause symptoms, a phenomenon called "overdiagnosis." Given concerns about overdiagnosis, instead of recommending mammograms, US guidelines encourage women aged 40–49 to get them as they see fit. To assess whether these guidelines target women effectively, I propose an approach that examines mammography behaviour within an influential clinical trial that followed participants long enough to find overdiagnosis. I find that women who are more likely to receive mammograms are healthier and have higher socioeconomic status. More importantly, I find that the 20-year level of overdiagnosis is at least 3.5 times higher among women who are most likely to receive mammograms. At least 36 |$\%$| of their cancers are overdiagnosed. These findings imply that US guidelines encourage mammograms among healthier women who are more likely to be overdiagnosed by them. Guidelines in other countries do not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Protective effects of health insurance against disasters: an insight from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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Yuda, Michio and Lee, Jinkook
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SENDAI Earthquake, Japan, 2011 ,DISASTER insurance ,HEALTH insurance ,TSUNAMIS ,FINANCIAL planning ,EARTHQUAKES - Abstract
The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 and it's massive tidal waves wreaked devastating damage on residences and communities along 400 km of the Pacific coast in Japan. Using the panel data from the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement, we estimate the effects of this disaster on individual health, finding a significant negative impact on the health of those in the area. In addition, we exploit a discontinuous decrease in copayments for medical care at the age of 70 years and find that the reduction in copayment increased medical and long-term care utilization and significantly reduced health deterioration after the earthquake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Aging People's Health in China.
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Xue, Qingyuan and Witvorapong, Nopphol
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OLDER people ,SOCIOECONOMIC status ,HEALTH of older people ,DUMMY variables ,AGE groups - Abstract
This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic status on health among older adults in China. It uses three waves of the nationally representative Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted in 2005, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012. It explores two dependent dummy variables of self-rated health and functional health and employs subjective and objective measures of socioeconomic status. Based on two-stage fixed-effects linear probability modeling, where potential endogeneity bias is accounted for, this study finds that socioeconomic status positively affects both self-rated health and functional health of Chinese older people. The positive impact holds true across different gender and age groups, but it is sensitive to the choice of health and socioeconomic status measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. Minimum wages and health: evidence from European countries
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Lebihan, Laetitia
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- 2023
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16. Does urbanization improve health outcomes: a cross country level analysis
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Tripathi, Sabyasachi and Maiti, Moinak
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- 2023
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17. The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment.
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Nikolova, Milena, Nikolaev, Boris, and Popova, Olga
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SELF-employment ,LIFE satisfaction ,PANEL analysis ,BUSINESS failures ,HEALTH behavior ,DRINKING behavior - Abstract
We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that while transitioning from self-employment to salaried employment brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological costs of business failure (i.e., switching from self-employment to unemployment) are substantial and exceed the costs of involuntarily losing a salaried job. Meanwhile, leaving self-employment has no consequences for self-reported physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are mainly psychological. Moreover, former business owners fail to adapt to an involuntary self-employment exit even 2 or more years after this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the nonmonetary implications of business failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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18. Dynamics of interactions between health and employment statuses: a panel data approach
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Moussa, Richard K. and Delattre, Eric
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- 2023
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19. Is industrial pollution detrimental to public health? Evidence from the world's most industrialised countries.
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Rahman, Mohammad Mafizur, Alam, Khosrul, and Velayutham, Eswaran
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INDUSTRIAL pollution , *HEALTH , *DEATH rate , *CARBON dioxide mitigation , *PHYSICIANS , *URBANIZATION - Abstract
Background: Industrial pollution is considered to be a detrimental factor for human health. This study, therefore, explores the link between health status and industrial pollution for the top 20 industrialised countries of the world.Methods: Crude death rate is used to represent health status and CO2 emissions from manufacturing industries and construction, and nitrous oxide emissions are considered to be indicators of industrial pollution. Using annual data of 60 years (1960-2019), an unbalanced panel data estimation method is followed where (Driscoll, J. C. et al. Rev Econ Stat, 80, 549-560, 1998) standard error technique is employed to deal with heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation and cross-sectional dependence problems.Results: The research findings indicate that industrial pollution arising from both variables has a detrimental impact on human health and significantly increases the death rate, while an increase in economic growth, number of physicians, urbanisation, sanitation facilities and schooling decreases the death rate.Conclusions: Therefore, minimisation of industrial pollution should be the topmost policy agenda in these countries. All the findings are consistent theoretically, and have empirical implications as well. The policy implication of this study is that the mitigation of industrial pollution, considering other pertinent factors, should be addressed appropriately by enunciating effective policies to reduce the human death rate and improve health status in the studied panel countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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20. Do minimum wage increases benefit worker health? Evidence from China.
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Chen, Jiwei
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INDUSTRIAL hygiene ,WAGE increases ,MINIMUM wage ,COST of living ,HEALTH behavior ,JOB satisfaction - Abstract
This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases affect worker health in China. Using data on low-skilled workers from the 2014 and 2016 China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS), I find minimum wage increases significantly improve several measures of health, including self-reported health status and the presence of health conditions. When examining the potential channels underlying the relationship between minimum wages and health, I find the health behaviors (smoking, drinking, and regular exercise) of low-skilled workers do not change significantly after minimum wage increases. Minimum wage increases significantly improve the living standards and job satisfaction of low-skilled workers. Finally, I find minimum wage increases play a larger role in improving the health of rural hukou workers and workers aged 35 and above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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21. A comparison of individual and collective decision making for standard gamble and time trade-off.
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Attema, Arthur E., Bleichrodt, Han, l'Haridon, Olivier, and Lipman, Stefan A.
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QUALITY-adjusted life years ,HEALTH ,CONJOINT analysis ,DYADS ,DECISION making - Abstract
Quality-Adjusted Life-Years (QALYs) are typically derived from individual preferences over health episodes. This paper reports the first experimental investigation into the effects of collective decision making on health valuations, using both time trade-off (TTO) and standard gamble (SG) tasks. We investigated collective decision making in dyads, by means of a mixed-subjects design where we control for learning effects. Our data suggest that collective decision making has little effect on decision quality, as no effects were observed on decision consistency and monotonicity for both methods. Furthermore, QALY weights remained similar between individual and collective decisions, and the typical difference in elicited weights between TTO and SG was not affected. These findings suggest that consulting with others has little effect on health state valuation, although learning may have. Additionally, our findings add to the literature of the effect of collective decision making, suggesting that no such effect occurs for TTO and SG. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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22. The puzzle of older workers’ employment: distance to retirement and health effects
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Sabatier, Mareva and Legendre, Bérangère
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- 2017
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23. Business cycle and mortality in Spain
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Cervini-Plá, María and Vall-Castelló, Judit
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- 2021
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24. Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks.
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Giuntella, Osea, Mazzonna, Fabrizio, Nicodemo, Catia, and Vargas-Silva, Carlos
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OCCUPATIONS , *INDUSTRIAL hygiene , *WORK-related injuries risk factors , *INDUSTRIAL safety , *MEDICAL care costs , *EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003–2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterised by lower physical burden and injury risk. The results also show important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels of education, but has no significant effect on those with low levels. We also find that that immigration led to an improvement self-reported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human and financial costs typically associated with workplace injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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25. Do time trade-off values fully capture attitudes that are relevant to health-related choices?
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Spencer, Anne, Tomeny, Ewan, Mujica-Mota, Ruben E., Robinson, Angela, Covey, Judith, and Pinto-Prades, Jose Luis
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QUALITY of life ,HEALTH ,CHOICE (Psychology) ,DEMOGRAPHIC surveys ,BELIEF & doubt ,INTERNET surveys - Abstract
Previous research has shown that demographics, beliefs, and self-reported own health influence TTO values. Our hypothesis is that attitudes towards length and quality of life influence TTO values, but should no longer affect a set of related choices that are based on respondents' own TTO scores. A representative sample of 1339 respondents was asked their level of agreement to four statements relating to the importance of quality and length of life. Respondents then went on to value 4 EQ-5D 5L states using an online interactive survey and a related set of 6 pairwise health-related choice questions, set up, so that respondents should be indifferent between choice options. We explored the impact of attitudes using regression analysis for TTO values and a logit model for choices. TTO values were correlated with the attitudes and were found to have a residual impact on the choices. In particular, those respondents who preferred quality of life over length of life gave less weight to the differences in years and more weight to differences in quality of life in these choice. We conclude that although the TTO responses reflect attitudes, these attitudes continue to affect health-related choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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26. The effects of health shocks on labor market outcomes: evidence from UK panel data.
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Lenhart, Otto
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HEALTH ,LABOR market ,LABOR productivity ,MEDICAL care costs ,LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
This study examines the link between health shocks and labor market outcomes in the United Kingdom. For sample periods of up to 9 years, I use longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to test how sudden health shocks affect a number of labor market outcomes, such as labor and household income, employment status, and hours worked. Additionally, the study examines potential mechanisms underlying the link between health declines and labor market outcomes. By estimating propensity score matching difference-in-differences models, the study shows that sudden health declines lead to significant and persistent reductions in earnings. The effects are strongest for individuals experiencing severe health shocks, males, individuals with higher education and those working in managerial jobs. When examining potential channels, I provide evidence that increased health care expenditures and health care usage as well as reduced work productivity can explain the observed effects on labor market outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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27. Discipline, risk, and the endogeneity between financial decisionmaking and health
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Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani and Farrington, Stephen
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- 2021
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28. Health, Lifestyle and Growth
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Coppola, Gianluigi, Parodi, Giuliana, editor, and Sciulli, Dario, editor
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- 2012
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29. The effect of health insurance coverage on personal bankruptcy: evidence from the Medicaid expansion
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Kuroki, Masanori
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- 2021
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30. Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Evidence from India
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Kumar, Santosh and Nahlen, Bernard
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intergenerational mobility ,ddc:330 ,I14 ,India ,health ,I10 ,anemia ,O15 - Abstract
Using nationally representative data, we estimate intergenerational persistence in health in India. Results from the instrumental variable method show that children of anemic mothers are more likely to be anemic, with an intergenerational health correlation of 0.26. Results are robust to the inclusion of confounding factors including the mother's height. We find that the correlation between mothers' anemic status and children's anemic status differs by wealth quintile, indicating that economic status may play a role in the persistence of poor health across generations in developing countries.
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- 2023
31. The Health-Consumption Effects of Increasing Retirement Age Late in the Game
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Caroli, Eve, Pollak, Catherine, and Roger, Muriel
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J14 ,J26 ,health-care consumption ,retirement age ,ddc:330 ,health ,I10 ,pension reform ,J18 - Abstract
Using the differentiated increase in retirement age across cohorts introduced by the 2010 French pension reform, we estimate the health-consumption effects of a 4-month increase in retirement age. We focus on individuals who were close to retirement age but not retired yet by the time the reform was passed. Using administrative data on individual sick-leave claims and non-hospital health-care expenses, we show that the probability of having at least one sickness absence increases for all treated groups, while the overall number of sick days remains unchanged, conditional on having a sick leave. Delaying retirement does not increase the probability of seeing a GP, except for men in the younger cohorts. In contrast, it raises the probability of having a visit with a specialist physician for all individuals, except men in the older cohorts. Delaying retirement also increases the probability of seeing a physiotherapist among women from the older cohorts. Overall, it increases health expense claims, in particular in the lower part of the expenditure distribution.
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- 2023
32. Sejong's Effects on People's Health: Consequences of a Long Commute
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Lim, Seulgi and Lee, Soohyung
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Sejong ,ddc:330 ,innovation city ,commute ,health ,I10 ,J18 ,R11 ,place-based policy ,H51 - Abstract
We examine the health impacts of long commute time by exploiting a large-scale placed-based policy in South Korea. The policy relocated public employers in the capital area to disadvantaged cities. However, some public employees kept their residences in the capital area and spend long hours commuting. Using this change, we estimate 2SLS models whose results suggest that having a long commute substantially increases usage of medical services, particularly to treat respiratory, circulatory, and endocrine & metabolic diseases. However, we find mixed effects of long commute time on medical checkup outcomes and health-related activities such as exercise.
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- 2023
33. Life-cycle health effects of compulsory schooling
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Schmitz, Hendrik and Tawiah, Beatrice Baaba
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compulsory schooling ,life-cycle effects ,I12 ,ddc:330 ,health ,I10 ,I21 ,Education - Abstract
We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and obesity) over the life-cycle in Germany, using compulsory schooling reforms as a source of exogenous variation. Our results suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for individuals up to age 79. An exception is obesity, where positive effects of schooling start to be visible around age 60 and become very large in age group 75-79. The results in age group 75-79 need to be interpreted with caution, however, due to small sample size and possible problems of attrition. Wir untersuchen den Einfluss von Bildung auf die Gesundheit (Krankenhausaufenthalte, Anzahl der diagnostizierten Krankheiten, selbst eingeschätzter schlechter Gesundheitszustand und Fettleibigkeit) über den Lebenszyklus hinweg. Hierzu verwenden wir Reformen zur Verlängerung der Pflichtschulzeit als exogene Variation. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen eine positive Korrelation zwischen Gesundheit und Bildung auf, die im Laufe des Lebenszyklus zunimmt. Wir finden jedoch keinen kausalen Effekt eines zusätzlichen Schuljahrs auf die Gesundheit oder die Inanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsleistungen für Personen bis zum Alter von 79 Jahren. Eine Ausnahme ist die Fettleibigkeit, bei der positive Auswirkungen der Schulbildung ab einem Alter von 60 sichtbar und in der Altersgruppe 75-79 auch sehr groß werden. Die Ergebnisse in der Altersgruppe 75-79 sind aufgrund des geringen Stichprobenumfangs und möglichen Problemen durch Panelaustritt aber mit Vorsicht zu interpretieren.
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- 2023
34. Are the Grandparents Alright?: The Health Consequences of Grandparental Childcare Provision
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Eibich, Peter and Zai, Xianhua
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J14 ,Childcare provision ,Grandparents -- Childcare provision -- Instrumental variables -- Health ,J13 ,Instrumental variables ,Grandparents ,Health ,ddc:330 ,ddc:610 ,Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften ,C26 ,I10 - Abstract
This paper examines the causal effect of childcare provision on grandparents' health in the US. We propose the sex ratio among older adults' children as a novel instrument for grandparental childcare provision. Our instrument is rooted in the demographic literature on grandparenthood and exploits that parents of daughters transition to grandparenthood earlier and invest more in their grandchildren than parents of sons. We estimate 2SLS regressions using data from the Health and Retirement Study. The results suggest that childcare provision is not beneficial for grandparents' health and may even be detrimental for physical functioning and subjective health. Specically, grandparenting worsens functional limitations of IADL by 26 percent and subjective health by 9.5 percent., CINCH working paper series, vol. 2022, no. 03
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- 2022
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35. The effect of birth weight on hospitalizations and sickness absences: a longitudinal study of Swedish siblings.
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Helgertz, Jonas and Nilsson, Anton
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BIRTH weight , *HOSPITAL care , *DISEASES , *SIBLINGS , *TWINS , *HEALTH , *LABOR market , *LABOR supply - Abstract
We examine the effect of birth weight on health throughout childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, focusing on two health outcomes: all-cause and cause-specific hospitalizations and sickness absences. The outcomes are important, not only from a health perspective but also from a labor market perspective, as the inability to fully participate in the labor force due to impaired health is known to have important long-term consequences. Our analysis focuses on differences between siblings, using full-population Swedish register data on cohorts born between 1973 and 1994. The relationship between birth weight and health is strongest during infancy, after which it weakens throughout childhood and adolescence. In adulthood, a stronger relationship again appears, suggesting a U-shaped relationship over the examined part of the life course. During childhood and adolescence, birth weight influences all examined disease types with the exception of cancers, with nontrivial effect sizes in relative terms. During adulthood, morbidity due to mental diseases dominates, primarily through conditions with early-age origins. Consequently, we provide new evidence that birth weight matters for both short- and long-term health outcomes and that it is of a dynamic nature in terms of its magnitude and which disease types are affected. Lastly, our results remain robust to a range of sensitivity analyses, including nonlinear specifications of birth weight, and to estimations based on a sample of same-sex twin pairs, allowing us to further reduce the influence of genes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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36. Do information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to health outcomes? An empirical analysis.
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Majeed, Muhammad Tariq and Khan, Farzana Naheed
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INFORMATION & communication technologies ,PUBLIC health ,ECONOMIC development ,INFORMATION technology ,MEDICAL care - Abstract
This study analyses the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and population health. The analysis is based on econometric model of population health in 184 countries using panel data spanning over 1990-2014. The analysis is based on fixed effects method on the basis of Hausman test. Besides, to deal with endogenous nature of ICT two stage least squares and system GMM are used in cross-sectional and panel data, respectively. Health is measured by life expectancy at birth and infant mortality rates. In this study, we measure ICT infrastructure using three proxies namely internet users, mobile cellular subscriptions, and fixed telephone subscriptions. The empirical results show a positive and significant impact of ICT on population health. This study recommends that health care programs need to focus on polices which foster digital inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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37. Health and health behaviors during the great recession: a note on drinking, smoking, obesity, and physical activity.
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Tekin, Erdal, McClellan, Chandler, and Minyard, Karen Jean
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GREAT Recession, 2008-2013 ,UNEMPLOYMENT statistics ,SMOKING ,MEDICAL economics ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Previous studies have shown that recessions are typically associated with better health and health behaviors. With the exception of a few recent studies however, these studies focus on sample periods that end prior to the Great Recession. The few exceptions that extend the analysis period beyond the Great Recession suggest that the pro-cyclical relationship between macroeconomic conditions and mortality obtained in earlier studies might have weakened over time. In this paper, we revisited the relationship between state unemployment rate and a large set of outcomes of health and health behaviors using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) between 1990 and 2014. Overall, our results suggest that state unemployment rate is weakly related to both health and health behaviors as our estimates are too small to have any meaningful implications, although they are largely imprecisely estimated. Finally, we tested whether the Great Recession played a significant role in influencing the pattern in the relationship between unemployment rate and health and health behaviors. Our results from this analysis do not reveal any measurable recession effect, although the estimates are again largely imprecise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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38. The impact of health on wages: evidence for Europe.
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Rodriguez-Alvarez, Ana and Rodriguez-Gutierrez, César
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MEDICAL economics ,WAGES ,MEDICAL care costs ,CLINICAL trials ,WAGE theory ,AGE distribution ,EMPLOYMENT ,HEALTH status indicators ,OCCUPATIONS ,RESEARCH funding ,SEX distribution ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,STATISTICAL models - Abstract
This paper analyses the effects of health on wages in sixteen European countries using production frontier methodology. It is assumed that workers have a potential income/productivity which basically depends on their human capital, but due to several health problems, situations could exist where workers fail to reach their potential income frontier. The estimation of a true-random-effects model allows us to conclude that the potential hourly wage of workers is significantly influenced by their level of education and their job experience. However, health problems, especially those strongly influencing work activities, contribute towards an individual not attaining the potential income which would otherwise be guaranteed by their human capital endowment. Suffering a strong limitation reduces gross wage per hour by 6.1%. This wage reduction is also observed in the case of a weak limitation, but here the wage difference with respect to workers without any limitation is 2.6%. Additionally, other factors, such as being a woman, the economic cycle or having a temporary contract, appear to distance an individual from their wage frontier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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39. Burden of climate change on malaria mortality.
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Dasgupta, Shouro
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CLIMATE change , *MORTALITY , *MALARIA , *GLOBAL temperature changes , *ENVIRONMENTALLY induced diseases , *SPATIAL analysis (Statistics) , *PHENOMENOLOGICAL biology - Abstract
In 2016, an estimated 445,000 deaths and 216 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, while 70% of the deaths occurred in children under five years old. Changes in climatic exposures such as temperature and precipitation make malaria one of the most climate sensitive outcomes. Using a global malaria mortality dataset for 105 countries between 1980 and 2010, we find a non-linear relationship between temperature and malaria mortality and estimate that the global optimal temperature threshold beyond which all-age malaria mortality increases is 20.8 °C, while in the case of child mortality; a significantly lower optimum temperature of 19.3° is estimated. Our results also suggest that this optimal temperature is 28.4 °C and 26.3 °C in Africa and Asia, respectively - the continents where malaria is most prevalent. Furthermore, we estimate that child mortality (ages 0-4) is likely to increase by up to 20% in some areas due to climate change by the end of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Chilean population norms derived from the health-related quality of Life SF-6D.
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Garcia-Gordillo, Miguel A., Collado-Mateo, Daniel, Olivares, Pedro R., and Adsuar, José C.
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CHILEANS ,QUALITY of life ,CROSS-sectional method ,CONTROL groups ,REFERENCE values ,HEALTH ,COST effectiveness ,HEALTH status indicators ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding - Abstract
Objectives: The Health-Related Quality of Life Short Form 6D (HRQoL SF-6D) provides utility values for health status. Utilities generated have a number of potentially valuable applications in economic evaluations and not only to ensure comparability between studies. Reference values can be useful to estimate the effect on patients' HRQoL as a result of interventions in the absence of control groups. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide normative values in the SF-6D in relation to the Chilean population.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted evaluating 5293 people. SF-6D utilities were derived from the SF-12 questions.Results: Mean SF-6D utility index for the whole sample was 0.74. It was better for men (0.78) than for women (0.71). The ceiling effect was much higher for men (11.16%) than for women (5.31%). Women were more likely to show problems in any dimension than were men.Conclusions: Chilean population norms for the SF-6D help in the decision-making process around health policies. Men reported higher health status than women in all subcategories analyzed. Likewise, men also reported higher scores than women in overall SF-6D dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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41. Re-Examining Vicious Circles of Development: A Panel Var Approach.
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Bayraktar-Sağlam, Bahar Bayraktar-Sağlam
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ECONOMIC development , *HUMAN Development Index , *MIDDLE-income countries , *EDUCATION , *ECONOMETRICS , *HEALTH - Abstract
Using panel data from 102 countries in 1975-2010, this paper explores the dynamic interaction among health, education and growth by applying panel VAR techniques. Empirical findings reveal that the predictive pattern among health, education and economic growth is not stable in the cross section of countries. While health has positive contribution to growth for all countries, education has benefited only higher middle income and high-income OECD countries. Economic growth has predictive power for the components of human development in the high-income OECD countries. Further, econometric evidence reveals that bi-directional relationship between health and education should be supported to reap the benefits of human development on economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Hungry children age faster.
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Abeliansky, Ana Lucia and Strulik, Holger
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We analyze how childhood hunger affects human aging for a panel of European individuals. For this purpose, we use six waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health deficits when they experienced a hunger episode in their childhood. The effect becomes larger when the hunger episode is experienced earlier in childhood. In non-linear regressions (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham law), we obtain greater effects suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The difference of health deficits between hungry and non-hungry individuals increases absolutely and relatively with age. This implies that individuals who suffered from hunger as children age faster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Assessing the Effect of Trade Openness on Health in the MENA Region: a Panel Data Analysis.
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Jawadi, Fredj, El Gouddi, Sami, Ftiti, Zied, and Kacem, Abdeljaoued
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FREE trade ,HEALTH care industry ,INFANT mortality ,PANEL analysis - Abstract
This study examines the effect of trade openness on the health outcomes of 12 countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, and the UAE. By using a panel data investigation over 1970-2015, we check whether the trade of these countries with developed economies (using the proxy of G7 countries) and the rest of the world affects life expectancy and the infant mortality rate. We also assess the moderating effect of governmental corruption. Our findings show two interesting results. First, trade openness has a positive effect on health in the MENA region as it reduces the infant mortality rate and boosts life expectancy for both men and women. Second, better control over corruption and more focus on trade with developed countries would lead to more technology and information spillovers, which positively affect the health sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. 'It is not a scientific number it is just a feeling': Populating a multi‐dimensional end‐of‐life decision framework using deliberative methods
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Philip Kinghorn, Joanna Coast, Cara Bailey, and Alastair Canaway
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Budgets ,Cost-Benefit Analysis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Applied psychology ,Population ,Qualitative property ,Information needs ,RT ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,HEB ,capabilities ,I31 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,I10 ,normative criteria ,education ,Research Articles ,media_common ,education.field_of_study ,Conceptualization ,030503 health policy & services ,Health Policy ,externalities ,health ,Focus group ,Death ,deaths ,D61 ,Feeling ,Economic evaluation ,Capability approach ,D63 ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,RA ,Research Article - Abstract
The capability approach is potentially valuable for economic evaluation at the end of life because of its conceptualization of wellbeing as freedom and the potential for capturing outcomes for those at end of life and those close to persons at the end of life. For decision making, however, this information needs to be integrated into current evaluation paradigms. This research explored weights for an integrated economic evaluation framework using a deliberative approach. Twelve focus groups were held (38 members of the public, 29 “policy makers,” seven hospice volunteers); budget pie tasks were completed to generate weights. Constant comparison was used to analyze qualitative data, exploring principles behind individuals' weightings. Average weights elicited from members of the general population and policy makers for the importance that should be given to close persons (vs. patients) were very similar, at around 30%. A “sliding scale” of weights between health gain and the capability for a good death resulted from the policy maker and volunteer groups, with increasing weight given to the capability for a good death as the trajectory got closer to death. These weights can be used in developing a more comprehensive framework for economic evaluation at end of life.
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45. The effect of smoking on obesity: Evidence from a randomized trial.
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Courtemanche, Charles, Tchernis, Rusty, and Ukert, Benjamin
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WEIGHT gain , *HEALTH , *SMOKING , *BODY mass index , *SMOKING cessation , *OBESITY , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials - Abstract
This paper aims to identify the causal effect of smoking on body mass index (BMI) using data from the Lung Health Study, a randomized trial of smoking cessation treatments. Since nicotine is a metabolic stimulant and appetite suppressant, quitting or reducing smoking could lead to weight gain. Using randomized treatment assignment to instrument for smoking, we estimate that quitting smoking leads to an average long-run weight gain of 1.8-1.9 BMI units, or 11-12 pounds at the average height. Semi-parametric models provide evidence of a diminishing marginal effect of smoking on BMI, while subsample regressions show that the impact is largest for younger individuals, those with no college degree, and those in the lowest quartile of baseline BMI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Is retirement good for men's health? Evidence using a change in the retirement age in Israel.
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Shai, Ori
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RETIREMENT age , *EMPLOYMENT of men , *HEALTH of older people , *AGE & employment , *MEN'S health - Abstract
This study examines the effect of employment on elderly men's health. A typical OLS analysis yields a positive relationship between employment and health for individuals in their sixties. Causality, however, is difficult to infer because healthier individuals are more capable of working than others. To overcome this endogeneity problem, this paper exploits the increase in the full retirement age for men in Israel from sixty-five to sixty-seven in 2004. After this change, the employment rate of men in this age bracket jumped significantly compared to the last cohort that was able to retire at sixty-five. Using the new retirement law as an exogenous source of variation in the employment status of elderly men, a significant causal relationship in the opposite direction of the correlation is found: employment at older ages impairs health. These findings are found across a broad array of datasets and health outcomes. The results are significantly stronger among less-educated workers, suggesting that employment in physically demanding occupations is more detrimental to health. Placebo analyses using the years preceding the new retirement regime and other health measures unrelated to employment (e.g., dentist visits) reinforce a causal interpretation of my main findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Corruption costs lives: evidence from a cross-country study.
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Li, Qiang, An, Lian, Xu, Jing, and Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina
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HEALTH care industry ,LEAST squares ,MATHEMATICAL statistics ,CORRUPTION ,ISOTONIC regression ,PHARMACEUTICAL industry ,MEDICAL care standards ,CRIME ,LIFE expectancy ,MEDICAL care costs ,RESEARCH funding - Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of corruption on health outcomes by using cross-country panel data covering about 150 countries for the period of 1995 to 2012. We employ ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed-effects and two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimation methods, and find that corruption significantly increases mortality rates, and reduces life expectancy and immunization rates. The results are consistent across different regions, gender, and measures of corruption. The findings suggest that reducing corruption can be an effective method to improve health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Concordance of health states in couples: Analysis of self-reported, nurse administered and blood-based biomarker data in the UK Understanding Society panel.
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Davillas, Apostolos and Pudney, Stephen
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MEDICAL economics , *BLOOD testing , *BIOMARKERS , *MEDICAL databases , *MEDICAL statistics - Abstract
We use self-reported health measures, nurse-administered measurements and blood-based biomarkers to examine the concordance between health states of partners in marital/cohabiting relationships in the UK. A model of cumulative health exposures is used to interpret the empirical pattern of between-partner health correlation in relation to elapsed relationship duration, allowing us to distinguish non-causal correlation due to assortative mating from potentially causal effects of shared lifestyle and environmental factors. We find important differences between the results for different health indicators, with strongest homogamy correlations observed for adiposity, followed by blood pressure, heart rate, inflammatory markers and cholesterol, and also self-assessed general health and functional difficulties. We find no evidence of a "dose-response relationship" for marriage duration, and show that this suggests - perhaps counterintuitively - that shared lifestyle factors and homogamous partner selection make roughly equal contributions to the concordance we observe in most of the health measures we examine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. The Dynamic Relationship between Temperature and Morbidity.
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White, Corey
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This paper examines the relationship between temperature and hospital usage with a focus on the role of behavioral responses to temperature. I use high-frequency data on the near universe of hospital and emergency department (ED) visits in California between 2005 and 2014 to estimate the effects of temperature on hospital usage patterns. I find that a day with mean temperature under 40°F leads to a 6.1% decrease in ED visits on the day of the event but that total net visits increase by approximately 11.0% above the daily mean after accounting for visits in the weeks that follow. Additionally, I find that a day over 80°F is associated with a same-day increase in ED visits of 3.5% and a total net increase of 5.1%. For both cold and hot temperatures, I provide evidence of the mechanisms—whether biological or behavioral—that explain these patterns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Performance of people with diabetes in the labor market: An empirical approach controlling for complications.
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Rodríguez-Sánchez, Beatriz and Cantarero-Prieto, David
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This paper introduces a framework for modelling the impact that diabetes has on employment status and wages, improving the existing literature by controlling for diabetes-related complications. Using the last wave of the Spanish National Health Survey, we find that 1710 adults out of the original sample of 36,087 have diabetes, reporting higher rates of unemployment. Our empirical results suggest that persons with diabetes, compared with non-diabetic persons, have poorer labor outcomes in terms of length of unemployment and lower income. However, diabetes is not significantly associated with unemployment probabilities, suggesting that the burden of diabetes on employment is mediated by lifestyle factors and clinical and functional complications. In addition, there are mixed outcomes to this econometric approach, depending on age and gender, among other factors. This interesting finding has several implications for research and policy on strategies to get lower health inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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