The health effects of US unemployment insurance policy: does income from unemployment benefits prevent cardiovascular disease?

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Published in PLoS One on July 15, 2014

Authors

Stefan Walter1, Maria Glymour2, Mauricio Avendano3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America; Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2: Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
3: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America; LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.

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