Essays in health and gender economics
This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned C-sections have a negative impact on neonatal health, which is however small compared to...
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| Tipo de documento: | tese |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositório: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/669928 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669928 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Health Gender Economics Spain Finland 33 |
| Resumo: | This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned C-sections have a negative impact on neonatal health, which is however small compared to the associations reported by previous literature. The second paper uses administrative data from Finland to study the impact of C-sections on children's longerterm outcomes until age 15. Our results show that unplanned Csections increase the risk of childhood asthma, but do not seem to a ect the probability of other immune-related diagnoses previously associated with C-sections. In the third paper, I study the e ects of the increasing female-male gap in education in the marriage market on marriage and fertility, exploiting the gradual implementation of a school reform in Finland that increased women's relative level of education. My results show decreases in marriage and fertility in marriage markets with a larger female advantage in education. Finally, the last paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in mortality in Spain during 1990-2014, focusing on age-speci c mortality and considering inequality across small geographical areas, ranked by average socioeconomic status. We nd that mortality decreased substantially during this period, with little change in inequality in most age groups. |
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