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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646289
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893
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Population and Health Policies
Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to "health production functions." The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976897
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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and enrollment is of particular concern because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283577
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Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India
Prakash, Nishith; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal...
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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
way that welfare usage should be based primarily on economic needs and health concerns. However, it is possible that an … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition. Individuals make optimal decisions about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763470
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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European … countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different … countries, which is the random outcome of a political process. We document that the introduction of public health care systems …
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