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Innovation and development: a revision of the Latin American thought
Jasso, Javier; Del Valle, Maria del Carmen; Núñez, Ismael - In: Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración 30 (2017) 4, pp. 444-458
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the contributions of what has been established as Latin American thought, as science, technology, and innovation (STI) in Latin America have been strongly related to development. Design/methodology/approach The analysis method is based on the review...
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Una estimación de los costes de un seguro público de dependencia de los mayores en España.
BRAÑA, F.J. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Diciembre, pp. 1-33
dependientes, para poder evaluar el coste de un seguro que cubriera el riesgo de caer en una situación de dependencia tras la … conlleva su atención, se calcula para el año 1998 el coste global por persona de atención a la dependencia. Tras la descripción … resultado, la dependencia de las personas mayores, concluyendo con la consideración del problema como un riesgo social que debe …
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The Convergence in Black-White Infant Mortality Rates during the 1960's
Greenstone, Michael; Chay, Kenneth Y. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 326-332
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Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
Hall, Robert E. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 1-11
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Fasting During Pregnancy and Children's Academic Performance
Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Ewijk, Reyn van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test scores at age seven. Using English register data, we find that scores are .05 to .08 standard deviations lower for Pakistani and Bangladeshi students exposed to Ramadan in...
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Psychiatric disorders and labor market outcomes: Evidence from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication
Chatterji, Pinka; Alegria, Margarita; Takeuchi, David - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 5, pp. 858-868
This paper uses the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication to estimate effects of recent psychiatric disorder on employment, hours worked, and earnings. We employ methods proposed in Altonji et al. (2005a) which use selection on observable traits to provide information regarding selection along...
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Chapter 6. Immigrants and Immigrant Health
Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 271-314). 2015
Using the National Health Interview Survey (1989–2011), we document the Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE)—immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their native counterparts, but this health advantage erodes over time—irrespective of the health measure,...
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Exploring the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920-1970
Collins, William J.; Thomasson, Melissa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
This paper examines the racial gap in infant mortality rates from 1920 to 1970. Using state-level panel data with information on income, urbanization, women's education, and physicians per capita, we can account for a large portion of the racial gap in infant mortality rates between 1920 and...
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Floating, Fixed, or Super-Fixed? Dollarization Joins the Menu of Exchange-Rate Options
McCulloch, Rachel; LeBaron, Blake - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 32-37
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Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources -- the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980322