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In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …
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We estimate the causal effect of maternal education on the mental health of mother's children in late adolescence and … adulthood. Theoretical considerations are ambiguous about a causal effect of maternal education on children's mental health. To … causal protective effect of maternal education on children's mental health. Instead, our empirical results suggest a moderate …
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The literature on vouchers often concludes that a vouchers-based system cannot be the outcome of a majority vote. This paper shows that, when the value of vouchers and who is entitled to receive them are fixed exogenously, the majority of voters are in favour of selective vouchers. On top of...
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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …
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the fixed effect partial adjustment model and regresses the human development index on health and education spending …. Results show that while health spending is significant in explaining human development in these countries both in the short … of the human capital in these countries, increased funding of the health sector is necessary. Furthermore, ensuring …
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This United Nations Policy Note on Social Policy provides practical guidance on how to operationalize alternative equitable and employment-generating social policies in National Development Strategies. This Policy Note has been developed in cooperation with UN agencies, and has been officially...
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Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are some of the poorest and least developed in the world, with deplorable health and … health levels, education and institutional quality as explanatory variables. My analysis yields some evidence, especially in … panel regressions with time-fixed effects, in support of the hypothesis that countries with poorer health and education …
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The study narrates the decline in access to three basic publicly provided services, namely, health, education, and …
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effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … the analysis and probed the effects of health capital as well. As far as we are aware, no study has done a direct and … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at …
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There is widely accepted concept in economic theory that human capital plays positive role in determining national income. Formation or accumulation of human capital and economic development for human welfare are the major targets of economic policy of each country. This study investigates the...
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