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consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …
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participation, labour supply, wages, income distribution, profit rates, capital ownership, etc.; examines nutrition, education and … health as factors influencing productivity. Diagram, graph, references, statistical tables. …
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disparities in the impact on household income, access to education and health status of expenditure on rural area infrastructure …ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper analyzing trends in public expenditure on rural development, education and … health services to satisfy basic needs in Ecuador from 1970 to 1980 - considers the socioeconomic disparities and rural urban …
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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 … long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …
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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 …’s future income proportionally at all levels of education, leaving the relative return between quality and quantity unaffected …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …
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, education and labor market success. We conclude that there do not appear to be serious harmful health effects of moderate … an overview of this literature, focusing on studies which seek to establish the causal effect of cannabis use on health … cannabis use. Nevertheless, there is evidence of reduced mental well-being for heavy users who are susceptible to mental health …
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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