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Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

Halliday, Timothy - 2018

Studies of intergenerational mobility have largely ignored health despite the central importance of health to welfare. We present the first estimates of intergenerational health mobility in the US by using repeated measures of self-reported health status (SRH) during adulthood from the PSID. Our...

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The Value of Socialized Medicine : The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey

Cesur, Resul - 2015

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...

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Anand, Paul - 2020

The paper provides new evidence from a survey of 2000 individuals in the US and UK related to predictors of Covid-19 transmission. Specifically, it investigates work and personal predictors of transmission experience reported by respondents using regression models to better understand possible...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in the United States : A Latent Variables Analysis

Halliday, Timothy - 2019

Social scientists have long documented that many components of socioeconomic status such as income and education have strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been ignored. We fill this void by providing the first...

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Association of a Genetic Risk Score with BMI Along the Life-Cycle : Evidence from Several Us Cohorts

Sanz‐de‐Galdeano, Anna - 2020

We use data from the The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and from the Health and Retirement Study to explore how the the effect of individuals' genetic predisposition to higher BMI —measured by BMI polygenic scores— changes over the life-cycle for several cohorts....

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Health Disparities Across Education : The Role of Differential Reporting Error

Cawley, John H. - 2015

conditions, including smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. We find that better educated … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …

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Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S : Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2016

It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, we examine whether another form of human capital, health, is also largely transmitted from...

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The Consequences of Measurement Error When Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

O'Neill, Donal - 2012

This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...

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Indebted and Overweight : The Link between Weight and Household Debt

Averett, Susan - 2012

) is a potential cause of obesity. We find a strong positive correlation between debt and weight for women but this seems …

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Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error

O'Neill, Donal - 2014

Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In … this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using self-reported BMI once we allow for … data to derive upper and lower bounds for the population obesity rate for ten European countries.For men it is possible to …

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