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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …, implementation of the program is also robustly associated with increased labor supply of adults, reduced fertility, and increased …
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-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to show that early adoption of NPIs is correlated to lower infection and mortality rates. However, due to the …
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program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We … find consistent effects of the program on reductions in mortality throughout the age distribution, but mainly at earlier …, implementation of the program is also robustly associated with increased labor supply of adults, reduced fertility, and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703743
of shorter workweeks on mortality using full population register data, exploiting a nationwide policy in Sweden that … event-study models, we show that lower working hours decreased mortality by around 15% over the first six years. We identify …
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Geographic disparities in mortality rates in the US are pronounced and growing. The Black-White mortality gap is … volatile but persistent, while the Rich-Poor mortality gap is increasing dramatically. While the causes of these inequalities … politics as a place-specific factor contributing to spatial inequality in mortality. Specifically, we test for the existence of …
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covers low fertility and industralised settings. Additional evidence from other settings would allow for a more broad …
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for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …
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for a reduction in both mortality and in inpatient care as a consequence of the early retirement offer. Increasing the …This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to … army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884323
This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...
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We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
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