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, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …
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, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the inuence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … eects logit, that allows for individual-specic reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and heterogeneity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695796
The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of life expectancy as proxy for health status of the OECD … countries' population. A production function of health is used to explain expectancy life at birth for total and ageing … population and according to gender. Socio-economic factors, health resources and lifestyles are defined as the main determinants …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265276
The study examines the relationship among health capacity, female learning and infant transience in Sub-Saharan African … secondary school (proxy female literacy), health expenditure (proxy health capacity) and infant mortality rate (infant … of Moment (DP-SGMM) technique. The paper expects that female literacy and health capacity have negative and significance …
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Despite being widely used in health economics, dynamic models of health and healthcare typically assume that the … persistence is essential for the design and evaluation of health interventions because persistence determines the dynamics and … health outcomes. Using simple regression methods that do not place any restriction on the distribution of the heterogeneity …
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Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … data on drug prescriptions to infer information about the health status of individuals and link it labor market outcomes …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …
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This paper presents a life cycle model for the demand for health, and derives empirical specifications that distinguish … between permanent and transitory wage responses. Using panel data, we estimate dynamic health and health input demand … in the literature. The analysis emphasises the importance to analyse health related behaviour in a dynamic life cycle …
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Does money matter? When investigating health behaviour, research often finds a strong positive association between … income and healthy behaviour. This could however be due to individual characteristics that determine both income and health …
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