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Parental unemployment during the Great Recession and childhood adiposity

Briody, Jonathan - 2020

The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study examines the relationship between changing economic...

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Obesity and Depression : Establishing Causality

Colman, Greg; Kelly, Inas - 2007

In this paper we present an instrumental variables estimate of the effect of obesity on depression in females. Previous … vector of instruments for obesity to examine the independent effect of obesity on depression. In conducting this analysis, we … characteristics influencing both obesity and depression are the likely causes of the strong correlation, and that factors such as …

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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Being Born under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life : Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Doblhammer, Gabriele; … - 2021

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

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Long-Run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions on Male BMI Trajectories and Health Behaviors

Nizalova, Olena - 2017

With periodic recessions and the rising costs of health care, it is important to know how labor market participation and insecurity affects health outcomes. Yet, this line of research faces a number of methodological challenges which this paper aims to address. We turn to Ukraine's experience...

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Measuring the total impact of demographic and behavioural factors on the risk of obesity accounting for the depression status a structural model approach using new BMI

Beaudin, L.; Skaza, J. - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 55/57, pp. 6041-6053

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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 finding a positive effect on heath behaviours. This study uses longitudinal data spanning the periods before, during and after the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of...

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Death on the job: the Great Recession and work-related traffic fatalities

French, Michael T.; Gumus, Gulcin - 2021

In light of recent discussions about shifting employees from traditional workplaces to virtual employment, we are motivated by the question of whether this phenomenon will end up saving lives even in the absence of an infectious disease outbreak. Motor vehicle incidents are the leading cause of...

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Depression and Obesity

Granberg, Ellen - In: The Oxford handbook of the social science of obesity. 2012

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