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sections on legal status, poverty, housing, and use of social services. …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …
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variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic growth...
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’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …
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health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macroeconomic conditions during childhood on mortality at all ages …
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possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality … provision of certain public services, notably schooling and health care, and in the placement of development projects. Taken …
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With obesity the most prevalent nutrition problem facing Americans at all economic levels, promoting diets that provide adequate nutrition without too many calories has become an important objective for the Food Stamp Program. Findings from behavioral economics suggest innovative, low-cost ways...
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choices and health outcomes remains a challenge. …
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