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Potential poverty traps among the rural poor suggest a need to reduce poor farmers' vulnerability by stabilizing crop … than ever before with crops that reduce production risk by tolerating climate fluctuation or resisting biotic stresses …. Will poor farmers who could benefit most from less vulnerability choose to purchase such risk-reducing seeds? I use data …
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interrelated domains of QOL as the relationship with family and friends, emotional well-being, health, work and productivity …
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research quantifies and illustrates the internal pay structure and enumerates that current employee satisfaction levels present …
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Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...
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of the health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke using a simple cost of illness approach and for the …
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health and more job security, in which large farms and technologically advanced farms have advantages. …
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The importance of health in promoting economic development has been forcefully stated by the World Health Organization …’s Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. In this paper, we look at the impact of own household health expenses on malaria … health production function is used to estimate the impact of malaria incidence on agricultural efficiency. Data come from the …
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providing additional information on the health benefits of the products. Ready-to-eat and juice products were preferred to whole …
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cost Americans hundreds in billions of dollars. High cholesterol levels, which are closely related to diet habits, are a major contributor to CVD. In this paper we study whether changes in food prices are related to cholesterol levels and whether taxes or subsidies...
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In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment effect. To outline the utility effect, we first develop a new theoretical model of individual food consumption. Next, we introduce the food environment effect by showing how the...
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