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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
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and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … children’s education - not, however, on health. The effects on children’s education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877975
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315793
and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083878
Computers are an important part of modern education, yet large segments of the population – especially low-income and … “intermediate” inputs in education for treatment students. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627567
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
This paper examines the effects of health-oriented food tax reforms on the distribution of tax payments, food demand and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and health estimates and report the confidence intervals for...
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for the time-invariant variables such as race and maternal education. This would not be feasible with the usual mother …
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Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...
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Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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