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Worth your weight: Experimental evidence on the benefits of obesity in low-income countries

Macchi, Elisa - 2022

I study the economic value of obesity - a seemingly inconsequential but unhealthy status symbol in poor countries …. Randomizing decision-makers in Kampala, Uganda to view weight-manipulated portraits, I make four findings. First, obesity is … real-stakes experiment involving loan officers, the obesity premium is comparable to raising borrower self …

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Productivity or discrimination? An economic analysis of excess-weight penalty in the Swedish labor market

Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Nordin, Martin - 2011

significant employment penalty. Both genders experience a significant income penalty for obesity. We conclude that the penalties …

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The Freer the Fatter? A Panel Study of the Relationship between Body-Mass Index and Economic Freedom

Ljungvall, Åsa - 2013

Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health …

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Understanding productivity in maternity wards

Di Giacomo, Marina; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Salmasi, Luca; … - 2024

This paper provides a causal estimate of labor productivity in maternity units. We consider an Italian law that defines the staffing requirements of maternity wards according to the annual number of births. We exploit these discontinuities in the availability of medical staff induced by the law...

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"Stand by me": Unveiling the value of own and others' mental illness

Andrén, Daniela - 2024

This paper calculates the value of experiencing mental illness, either directly or indirectly through knowing someone near, family, or friends (NFF), who is affected. Using the well-being valuation method, which explores the trade-offs between income and self-reported experiences that maintain...

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Physician practice style for mental health conditions: The case of ADHD

Marquardt, Kelli - 2022

There is a robust literature documenting the importance of physician practice style (e.g., the propensity to perform certain operations) in explaining outcomes related to patients' physical health. Yet little is known about the role of physicians in explaining patients' mental health outcomes....

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Societal disruptions and child mental health: Evidence from ADHD diagnosis during the Covid-19 pandemic

Freedman, Seth; Marquardt, Kelli; Salcedo, Dario; … - 2023

We study how the societal disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted diagnosis of a prevalent childhood mental health condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Using both nationwide private health insurance claims and a single state's comprehensive electronic health records,...

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The parenthood penalty in mental health: Evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health equality. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8%...

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Life after loss: The causal effect of parental death on daughters' fertility

Glaser, Felix; Wiesinger, Rene - 2024

We use high-quality administrative data from Austria to credibly identify the causal effect of parental death on daughters' fertility. To account for the endogeneity of parental death, we exploit the timing of deaths in a difference-in-differences research design. Parental death has no...

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Flat-of-the-curve medicine: A new perspective on the production of health

Schoder, Johannes; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...

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