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We use a model of human capital investment and activity choice to explain facts describing gender differentials in the levels and returns to human capital investments. These include the higher return to and level of schooling, the small effect of healthiness on wages, and the large effect of...
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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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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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health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
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Health and education are not only beneficial in themselves, but they can be viewed as investments in human capital … which lead to a higher future standard of living. The people of Africa experience lower levels of both health and education …
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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult …
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health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
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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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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
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