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and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …
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We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … health events. …
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reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …
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We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...
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examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation …). This environmental degradation from trade worsens population's health (infant and child mortality rates, and life …
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survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the … years of life have a weaker health, reflected by a lower height for age z-score (HAZ). Using the Infancy Childhood Puberty … indicates that months of civil war before a woman's birth also have a negative impact on her health highlighting the importance …
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In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we precisely account for the effects of the epidemic on income per capita through human and physical capital accumulations, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the...
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lie below the Pigovian level (or marginal social damages). This article challenges this finding by arguing that health …
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exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …
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health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …
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