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no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient …Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health …
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no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient …Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761753
no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient …Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317126
In this paper, we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries.The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).We examine the value added of objective health variables in relation to potentially endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091418
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658321
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624877
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559613
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531867
widespread under-diagnosis of chronic diseases and low rates of treatment and control. This paper uses hypertension as an example …, treatment and control. We find no wealth and education gradients in the prevalence of hypertension. Given education, wealth … plays some roles in improving the treatment and control of hypertension. Some associations exist between education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574889
are also notably different in the extent of income and racial/ethnic inequalities. It is within this context that this …, marital status, income, education, country of birth, and race/ethnicity) and health status in Canada and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005635208