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Using data from the New Haven EPESE, we examine the relationship between family structure and the risk of first nursing home admission.
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … part of the observed disparities in health by SES. In their model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement …, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …
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, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to …
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A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth spacing (fecundity)....
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This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital … framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment … and health, that the health of wealthy and educated individuals declines more slowly and that they live longer, that …
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This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the … health of children in Ghana. We focus on child survival, child height and weight using data from the Ghana Living Standards … Survey. The results suggest an important role for public health policy in eliminating the rural-urban disparities in health …
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availability and quality of health care services and increases in relative food prices. The health of Ivorians was probably …
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Survey data indicate that different dimensions of health affect the wages of men and women in urban Brazil. Height has …
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This study examines the determinants of women's return to work following the birth of their first child among white, black, and Mexican-origin women to test the general hypothesis that previous racial differentials - observed during the late 1960s and early 1970s - in employment of new mothers...
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants-the United States, United Kingdom and Canada-the authors examine the performance of Indian...
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