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This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply …
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How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare … model, and control for the non-exogeneity of health insurance. The empirical findings support the hypothesis of a return to … the hometown for migrant workers with poor health. Apart from residency permits and income, the social integration of …
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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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/AIDS, we provide a new series of HIV prevalence rate build from the estimation of the propagation dynamic of the epidemic. …
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