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health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …
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This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …
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This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in education, income … are able to make in child health. We also find that income and the infectious disease environment in the mother’s birth … large sample of comparable data that exhibits massive variation in maternal and child health as well as in aggregate …
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vocational education and training, (iii) cooperating in higher education and research, (iv) addressing regional health issues, (v …
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representative projects in the road transport, health, tourism, and energy sectors were selected for detailed analysis, and research …
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In 2011, Uzbekistan celebrated 20 years of independence. The transition has not been smooth for any country in the Commonwealth of Independent States, and Uzbekistan, too, has experienced both positive and negative developments in gender equality. The status of women and men in Uzbekistan is...
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This study analyzes the potential fiscal, health, and poverty impacts of increasing cigarette taxes in five countries …, but do reap a substantial proportion of the health benefits of reduced smoking. …
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- 2005) of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Our results show that health plays an …This paper investigates the causal relationship between ill-health and retirement among older working individuals. We … important role in individual retirement decisions and that negative shocks to health greatly increase the hazard of retirement …
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This paper analyses the role of health on exits out of and entries into employment using data from the first twelve … health on the hazard of becoming non-employed and on the hazard of becoming employed. The results show that general health …, measured by a variable that captures health limitations and by a constructed latent health index, affects entries into and …
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Viewed as a key to strengthening accountability, citizen empowerment alone is not enough to guarantee quality public service. It must go hand in hand with better governance. This report highlights two factors that have improved governance and public service provision in developing Asia: (i)...
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