Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers

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13/28: Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well Being: The Case of Fukushima

Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach and Nicolas Ziebarth

13/27: Born to Win? The Role of Circumstances and Luck in Early Childhood Health Inequalities

David Madden

13/26: Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?

Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Michael Shields

13/24: Infant Health and Academic Achievement in Childhood

P. Chatterji, Daisoon Kim and Kajal Lahiri

13/23: Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on health

Hendrik Schmitz and Matthias Westphal

13/22: The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early

Hans Bloemen, S. Hochguertel and J. Zweering

13/20: Obesity, Weight Loss, and Employment Prospects: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Arndt Reichert

13/19: The effect of schooling on health: Evidence on several health outcomes and behaviors

M. Braga and M. Bratti

13/18: Measuring Investment in Human Capital Formation: An Experimental Analysis of Early Life Outcomes

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon, James Heckman, Caitriona Logue and S.H. Moon

13/17: Difference in Differences for Stayers and Movers with a Time-Varying QualiÂ…cation

M. Lee and Y. Kim

13/16: Point identification in the presence of measurement error in discrete variables: application - wages and disability

Eirini-Christina Saloniki and Amanda Gosling

13/15: The influence of BMI, obesity and overweight on medical costs: a panel data perspective

Toni Mora, Joan Gil and A. Sicras-Mainar

13/14: A discrete latent factor model for smoking, cancer and mortality

Daniel Howdon and Andrew Jones

13/13: Income, rainfall shocks and health. An instrumental variable approach

D. Savage and Eleonora Fichera

13/12: Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata

Peter Eibich and Nicolas Ziebarth

13/11: Health and Wealth on the Roller-Coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011

David Madden

13/10: Weather shocks and nutritional status of disadvantaged children in Vietnam

I. Edoka

13/09: Family Socio-economic Status, Childhood Life-events and the Dynamics of Depression from Adolescence to Early Adulthood

Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li

13/08: Moving up and sliding down: An empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing

P. Dolan and Grace Lordan

13/07: The Poverty Effects of a "Fat-Tax" in Ireland

David Madden

13/06: The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control

John Cawley and Stephanie von Hinke

13/05: Inequalities in Self-Reported Health: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Joan Costa-Font and Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

13/04: Self-Reported and Measured BMI in Ireland: Should We Adjust the Obesity Thresholds?

David Madden

13/03: The Relationship Between Low Birthweight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

David Madden

13/02: Exploring the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and problem drinking as captured by Google searches in the US

Paul Frijters, David Johnston, Grace Lordan and Michael Shields

13/01: House Prices, Home Equity and Health

Eleonora Fichera and John Gathergood

12/29: Decomposing Differences in Cotinine Distribution between Children and Adolescents from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds

I.P. Edoka

12/28: Childhood Health and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Western Europe

Viola Angelini and Jochen Mierau

12/27: My body is fat and my wallet is thin: The link between weight perceptions, weight control and income

D.W. Johnston and Grace Lordan

12/26: Explaining variations in breast cancer screening across European countries

A. Wuebker

12/25: Assessing inequalities in preventive care use in Europe: A special case of health-care inequalities?

Vincenzo Carrieri and A. Wuebker

12/24: The challenge of incorporating external evidence in trial-based cost-effectiveness analyses: the use of resampling methods

Mohsen Sadatsafavi;, Carlo Marra;, Lawrence McCandless and Stirling Bryan

12/23: Estimating structural mean models with multiple instrumental variables using the generalised method of moments

Paul S. Clarke;, Tom M. Palmer; and Frank Windmeijer

12/22: On the impact of social housing on the labour position of disabled

Stéphane Gregoir and Tristan-Pierre Maury

12/21: Aircraft noise, health, and residential sorting: evidence from two quasi-experiments

Stefan Boes, Stephan Nuesch and Steven Stillman

12/20: Evidence on the long shadow of poor mental health across three generations

David Johnston, Stefanie Schurer and Michael Shields

12/19: Human capital and longevity. Evidence from 50,000 twins

Petter Lundborg, Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Paul Nystedt;

12/18: The effects of price regulation of pharmaceutical industry margins: A structural estimation for anti-ulcer drugs in France

Pierre Dubois and Laura Lasio

12/17: The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses - Evidence from plant closures in Germany

Jan Marcus

12/16: Collateral effects of a pension reform in France

Helene Blake; and Clementine Garrouste

12/15: Non-linear price schedules, demand for health care and response behavior

Helmut Farbmacher and Joachim Winter

12/14: Mandatory labelling, nutritional taxes and market forces: An empirical evaluation of fat policies in the French fromage blanc and yogurt market

Olivier Allais, Fabrice Etilé and Sébastien Lecocq

12/13: Spillovers of health education at school on parents' physical activity

Lucila Berniell, Dolores de la Mata and Nieves Valdés

12/12: Parental education and offspring outcomes: evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform

Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson and Dan-Olof Rooth

12/11: An analysis of mammography decisions with a focus on educational differences

Anikó Bíró

12/10: A comparison of parametric and non-parametric adjustments using vignettes for self-reported data

Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice; and Silvana Robone:

12/09: What Drives Differences in Health Care Demand? The Role of Health Insurance and Selection Bias

Dan Shane; and Pravin Trivedi

12/08: Average and quantile treatment effects of the American Folic Acid Fortification: an evaluation in a quasi-experimental framework

Elena Fumagalli

12/07: Do maximum waiting times guarantees change clinical priorities? A Conditional Density Estimation approach

Silviya Nikolova;, Arthur Sinko; and Matt Sutton;

12/06: Time and chance happen to them all? Duration modelling versus lifetime incidence of cancer

Daniel Howdon