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health outcomes. In addition to using state unemployment rates to proxy for labor market conditions, as is common in the …-induced changes in labor market opportunities for fathers and mothers. In contrast with prominent studies of adult health, we find no … children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the …
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This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the reduced form treatment effect literature. It is an empirically robust middle ground between the two...
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Nutrition is a key input in the health production function, and a better understanding of how we eat can aid in guiding … effective policy change towards better population health. This study documents prevalence rates, trends in, and potential … real GDP per capita, labor force participation, and health care measures in a nation can partly explain the increase in …
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activating any estimated additional work capacity should take into account, when possible, the heterogeneity of health conditions …Considering mortality and health status, we question the fact that the reforms may have gone too far in increasing the …: one based on the gap in employment rates across time for given mortality rates; the other using the work/health …
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to reduce incentives to retire early. However, it is unknown to what extent older individuals have the health capacity to … sustain the longer working lives that delayed pension benefits may encourage. We estimate the health capacity to work longer … the past, and how much younger individuals today with similar self-assessed health work. We find substantial health …
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The demographic transition and economic growth in the Pacific Rim / Andrew Mason, Ronald Lee, and Sang-Hyop Lee ; comments: Jocelyn E. Finlay, Jong-Wha Lee -- Population aging and economic growth in Asia / David E. Bloom, David Canning, and Jocelyn E. Finlay ; comments: Roberto S. Mariano,...
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Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal...
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