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The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
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This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
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All the UK's major parties agree on ring-fencing foreign aid spending at current levels, even while the country's dire financial situation requires sharp cuts to other budgets. Peter Boone draws on the evidence on aid effectiveness to argue that our focus should not be on the amount we spend but...
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 …/92 waves of the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey (HALS). Uniquely, the survey asks respondents what they think are the main … causes of ten common health conditions, and we compare these answers to those given by medical professionals to form an index …
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Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...
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suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …'s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially … pronounced among older people, who, when exposed, also report health problems more often that are indicative of coronary heart …
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claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …
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Little comparative research exists on health experiences and conditions of minority groups in Canada and the United … article explores race and immigrant disparities in health and health care access across the two countries. The study focus was … on middle and old age given the change and increasing diversity in health and health care policy, such as Medicare …
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