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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are …

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Wage and Labor Supply effects of Illness in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana : Instrumental Variable Estimates for Days Disabled

Schultz, T-P - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

used to improve health? Self-reported functional activity limitation due to illness is considered as an indicator of … morbidity for wage earners and self employed. To deal with both the measurement and joint determination problems, an … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

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Trade, tastes and Nutrition in India

Atkin, David - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

This paper introduces habit formation into an otherwise standard model of international trade. Household tastes evolve over time to favor foods consumed as a child. The opening of trade causes preferred goods to rise in price, as these were relatively inexpensive in autarky. Neglecting the...

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INTRA-HOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION: AN INFERENTIAL APPROACH.

THOMAS, D. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1989

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The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants

Atkin, David - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

Anthropologists have long documented substantial and persistent differences across social groups in the preferences and taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In particular, can culture constrain caloric intake and...

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Demystifying the German "Armament Miracle" During World War II. New Insights from the Annual Audits of German Aircraft Producers

Budrab, Lutz; Scherner, Jonas; Streb, Jochen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50 % of the German aircraft producers. We...

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Structural Change in Russian Transition

Gregory, Paul R.; Lazarev, Valery - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper examines structural change in the Russian economy in 1990-2001, as measured by the changing composition of output and consumption, using international panel data sets as a frame of reference. It calculates a series of indexes to determine the extent to which the Russian economy is...

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Global Wage Inequality and the International Flow of Migrants

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

of workers located around the world, is discussed. A global wage equation that nests the Mincer specification is …

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Human Capital Investment and the Gender Division of Labor

Pitt, Mark M.; Rosenzweig, Mark; Hassan, Nazmul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2010

incorporates gender differences in the level and responsiveness of brawn to nutrition in a Roy-economy setting in which activities …

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Population and Health Policies

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and …, health outcomes, and reproductive behavior, which operate in many directions. The connection between conditions under which … people live and their expected life span and health status refer to “health production functions”. The relationships between …

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