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This paper provides a new estimation of an international poverty line based on a Bayesian approach. We found that the … official poverty lines of the poorest countries are related to the countries' mean consumption level. This new philosophy is to … be compared to the previous assumptions made by the World Bank in favour of an absolute poverty line. We propose a new …
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-term economic relationship between HCE and GDP, controlling for price effect, population ageing, innovation proxy and medical …
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morbidity induce savings which more than offset the increase in spending due to population ageing. …
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This paper asks whether a gap in spouses' subjective happiness matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three large panel surveys to explore this question. Controlling for the life satisfaction levels of spouses, we find that a larger happiness gap, even in the first year of...
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L'Afrique, qui ne comptait que 230 millions de consommateurs en 1950, est devenue milliardaire en population à la fin …
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suboptimal mix of size and skills of the population. In particular, households would underinvest in their children education …If raising and educating children is a private cost to households, while the availability of skilled labor supply … resulting from the households' fertility and education choices is a public good, then competitive equilibria typically deliver a …
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, focusing a stationary equilibrium with stationary population, we provide two alternative explanations for the observed …
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population, évolutions diversifiées selon les États de ce pays fédéral, forte pluralité culturelle. En outre, le marché indien …
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Township hospitals, which are an important link of the Chinese rural healthcare system, were affected by the successive socio-economic reforms since the 1980s. As a consequence, their utilization declined. From longitudinal data covering nine years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly...
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households. The negative effect of NCMS on savings of middle-income participants holds when we use propensity score matching …
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