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Mortality and early growth in England, France, and Sweden

Lagerloef, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR POLICY REFORMS FOR NIGERIA:A PHASED PROJECT STUDY

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...

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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003

Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...

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Signalling equilibrium, Intergenerational mobility and long-run growth

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper provides a signalling model of endogenous growth in which innate talents and education levels of workers drive the basic scientific knowledge and adoptive knowledge accumulation processes. Whether talented individuals get properly educated and are employed in the appropriate technical...

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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy

Woltermann, Silke - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible factors affecting the efficiency of...

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian

Corak, Miles; Heisz, Andrew - EconWPA - 1998

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than...

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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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The Qualitative Performance of the French Health Care System Evolutions compared to Europe since 1970

D'INTIGNANO, Beatrice MAJNONI; ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

To judge a health care system, it is necessary to analyse its results in terms of health and to bring them back to its economic effectiveness. Health outcomes can be evaluated in several ways but none of them is really representative. To locate the performance in terms of health for the French...

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Health Economics : some stylized facts

ULMANN, Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

The study of the stylized facts of economic growth has allowed an advance of this field of economic analysis in its empirical and theorical works. Today, Health Economics is faced with new requirements of society, i.e. better care at a sustainable cost. Furthermore, since the problems linked...

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Wages, Alcohol Use, and Smoking: Simultaneous Estimates

Auld, M. Christopher - EconWPA - 1998

This paper estimates a simultaneous model of moderate and problem drinking, smoking, and wages using a random sample of employed Canadian men. The results indicate that sample selection into alcohol and tobacco use is not negligible. With all else in the system held constant, moderate and heavy...

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