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and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of … malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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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 …
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Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one’s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption....
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sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …
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-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …
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subsequent labour market outcomes. It uses valuable information from a natural experiment driven by rules that allow for … approach is immune to other relative age/peer effects. Information on the precise month of birth enables us to show that … levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact …
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relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation. …
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This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in...
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