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1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 249 Seiten, 11838 KB)
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Content:
Inequalities in health are a prevalent feature of societies. And as societies, we condemn inequalities that are rooted in immutable circumstances such as gender, race, and parental background. Consequently, policy makers are interested in measuring and understanding the causes of health inequalities rooted in circumstances. However, identifying causal estimates of these relationships is very ambitious for reasons such as the presence of confounders or measurement error in the data. This thesis contributes to this ambitious endeavour by addressing these challenges in four chapters. In the first Chapter, I use 25 years of rich health information to describe three features of intergenerational health mobility in Germany. First, we describe the joint permanent health distribution of the parents and their children. A ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, a percentile point increase in permanent health ranks is associated with a 0.8% to 1.4% ...
Note:
Dissertation Universität Potsdam 2021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Graeber, Daniel Four essays on the socio-economic causes and consequences of individual health as well as public health crises Potsdam, 2021
Language:
English
Keywords:
Graue Literatur
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.25932/publishup-51517
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-515175
URL:
https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-51517
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-515175
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1241182787/34
Author information:
Caliendo, Marco 1974-
Author information:
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.