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Does terror threaten human rights?: evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2007
The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights
Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars-H. R. - 2010
Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274933
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From Natural Resources to Human Rights
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Per Magnus Wijkman was the first foreign observer to urge Iceland in print to regulate its fisheries by price. This was in 1975, nine years before the Icelandic fishing quota system came into effect, a system judged discriminatory and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Iceland in 1998 (but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892260
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The global joint distribution of income and health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008
unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264413
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The effect of compulsory schooling on health: Evidence from biomarkers
Jürges, Hendrik; Kruk, Eberhard; Reinhold, Steffen - 2010
Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age … exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270516
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Health Capital Provision and Human Capital Accumulation
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2020
This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840695
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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892138
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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822692
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Female and Male Body Mass, Height, and Weight During US Economics Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827111
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Increased Instruction Time and Stress-Related Health Problems Among School Children
Marcus, Jan - 2019
While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health … claims data of the German Social Health Insurance. Exploiting the differential timing in the reform implementation across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866398