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This paper examines the impact of early-life radiation exposure on adult fertility using a dynamic difference-in-differences approach. Analyzing 18 cohorts of women born between 1976 and 1993 in Italian municipalities, we utilize a radiation exposure indicator and administrative datasets on...
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constituents on the use of health care, and specifically maternal and preventive care services. We examine the development of … institutions of self-governance in India, and specifically the 2005 reform - the National Rural Health Mission that introduced … village health and sanitation committees - to study the effects of the strengthening of the political agency on collective …
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In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …
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socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …
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Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …
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The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This … paper closes this gap by evaluating the effect of a major health intervention - the successful expansion of anti … health improvements, greater approval of government policy, and increased trust in political institutions. Results of a …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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We compare health system responses to the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. In both countries … health system responses, we show evidence of a significant gap in the number of infected cases, alongside regular and …
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We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … signal among those over 45, and as a signal of health-care system failure among younger age individuals. …
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demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002 …
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