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the causes and effects of long-term changes in the health of the European populations. The paper surveys methods which had …
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Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly …
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ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses …
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food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …
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, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …
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We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These …
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responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …
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Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate counterfactual choices if households faced prices and nutritional...
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Over the Great Recession real wages stagnated and unemployment increased. Concurrently, food prices rose sharply, outstripping growth in food expenditure, and leading to a reduction in calories purchased. This has led to concern about rising food poverty. We study British households to assess...
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