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Inequality and Suicide Mortality: A Cross-Country Study
Rodriguez, Antonio - 2006
This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide … rates. Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941024
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Inequality and Suicide Mortality: A Cross-Country Study
Rodriguez, Antonio - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2006
This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide … rates. Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021948
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How Did Schooling Laws Improve Long-Term Health and Lower Mortality?
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2007
Although it is well known that there is a strong association between education and health much less is known about how … evidence that education has a causal effect on health. Using state compulsory school laws as instruments, Lleras-Muney finds … large effects of education on mortality. We revisit these results, noting that the effects are not statistically different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054090
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Top Income Shares and Mortality : Evidence from Advanced Countries
Bockerman, Petri - 2010
The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If … anything, the estimates based on gender breakdown show that there is evidence that an increase in income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149145
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“The Child is Father of the Man:” Implications for the Demographic Transition
Croix, David de la; Licandro, Omar - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. This theory is embodied in an OLG framework where fertility, longevity and education all result from individual decisions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547438
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Inequality and Mortality : Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Leigh, Andrew; Jencks, Christopher - 2006
We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … share of the richest 10 percent affect homicide or suicide rates … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058298
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Top income shares and mortality: Evidence from advanced countries
Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If … anything, the estimates based on gender breakdown show that there is evidence that an increase in income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543495
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The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition
Licandro, Omar; Croix, David de la - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2009
We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. This theory is embodied in an OLG framework where fertility, longevity and education all result from individual decisions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972290
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‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition
de la Croix, David; Licandro, Omar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124210
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‘The child is father of the man’: implications for the demographic transition
DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, Omar - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007
We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth all result from individual decisions. Parents face a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042850