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EARNINGS EFFECTS OF HOUSEHOLD INVESTMENT IN HEALTH IN COLOMBIA.

Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

This study considers the links between primary indicators of health and individual labor productivity in Colombia and … explores how additional public expenditures on health may improve individuals' health. Sample statistics how that illness …

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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 … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …

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The Private Demand for Information and the Effects of Public Testing Programs: The Case of HIV.

Boozer, M.; Philipson, T. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private HIV information on sexual activity showing how the private information provided by a public testing program would change the allocation of information generated in absence o fthe program.

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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 … instrumental variable estimation approach is used where local food prices and health services instrument for disability days that …

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Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

inequality in many low-income countries, and thus schooling and health are analyzed here as indicators of productivity and … foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health … schooling and health, and delay the equalization of these human capital investments between men and women. Liberalization of …

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Trade and Human Rights

Srinivasan, T-N - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

The paper analyzes the moral, philosophiacal and economic arguments for and against linking trade and human rights. It finds that while claims of universality of labour standards are overblown, addressing the legitimate concerns that citizens of one country may have about what they deem "poor"...

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Inside the 'Black Box' of Project STAR: Estimation of Peer Effects Using Experimental Data

Boozer, Michael A.; Cacciola, Stephen E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

The credible identification of endogenous peer group effects -- i.e. social multiplier or feedback effects -- has long eluded social scientists. We argue that such effects are most credibly identified by a randomly assigned social program which operates at differing intensities within and...

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The Effects of Class Size on the Long Run Growth in Reading Abilities and Early Adult Outcomes in the Christchurch Health and Development Study

Boozer, Michael A.; Maloney, Tom - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

This paper utilizes the feature of the CHDS data from New Zealand that children are sampled for extremely long individual histories of their class size experiences as well as their scholastic and early labor market outcomes. Our interest is to explore the full set of empirical implications of...

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Targeting Ultra-poor Households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...

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