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construct local indicators of household wealth, education and health from geo-coded Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 29 …
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Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …
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Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …-adjusted cancer mortality rates of residents of France, using longitudinal, annual, cancer-site-level data during the period 2002 … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline …
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This paper studies the optimal long-run public intervention in a two-period OLG model where the probability of surviving the first period and the length of the second period can be influenced by distinct policies. While the optimal size of public intervention depends on the extra-productivity of...
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In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa's average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
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Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa’s average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641423
, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …
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