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The effect of the Great Recession on health : a longitudinal study of Irish mothers 2001-2011
Briody, Jonathan; Doyle, Orla; Kelleher, Cecily - 2019
The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis … the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of economic expansion and contraction on mothers physical and mental health … and health behaviours. Three waves of data from the Irish Lifeways Cohort Study for the period 2001-2011, and local area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063066
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On plague in a time of Ebola
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015
Ebola and plague share several characteristics, even though the second and third plague epidemics dwarfed the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to the two diseases and their lethality; the spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382604
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On plague and Ebola in a time of COVID-19
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic recalls the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 and earlier much more lethal plague epidemics. All share several characteristics, even though the second and third plague epidemics dwarfed the both the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012260976
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Fetal origins, childhood development, and famine : a bibliography and literature review
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2011
The human costs of famines outlast the famines themselves. An increasing body of research points to their adverse long-run consequences for those born or in utero during them. This paper offers an introduction to the burgeoning literature on fetal origins and famine through a review of research...
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661
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The effect of cancer on the employment of older males : attenuating selection bias using a high risk sample
Candon, David - 2015
Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496185
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Are cancer survivors who are eligible for social security more likely to retire than healthy workers? : evidence from difference-in-differences
Candon, David - 2015
Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health … eligibility on retirement. With data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), I use a difference-in-differences model to show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483533
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The effects of cancer in the English labour market
Candon, David - 2014
The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, show a significant reduction in employment and hours of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348323
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The relationship between low birthweight and socioeconomic status in Ireland
Madden, David - 2012
There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733088
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SES health gradients during the epidemiological transition : the case of China
Lei, Xiaoyan; Yin, Nina; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
. Interestingly, we find that access to health care does not contribute to the diagnosis of hypertension, nor does it aid much in the … Chinese public and its health care system are ill-prepared. There is an urgent need to educate the public on chronic illnesses …, and to raise the quality of health care so that patients receive proper diagnoses and guidance on how to treat and control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298593