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International Comparisons of Work Disability

Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...

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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

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Healthy Living in Hard Times

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...

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