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The study examines the socio-economic determinants of physical health among populations experiencing food insecurity … by an economic recession are associated with deteriorated physical health of food-insecure people. Moreover, the study … found that physical health deteriorations among food-insecure people are associated with older age, female gender …
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Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …
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We offer an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on...
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In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its … falling family size contributed significantly to improving child health between 1886 and 1938. Between 1906 and 1938 these …
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This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income … of income and health using procedures that are robust to aggregation techniques. The paper's approach is more general … than comparisons of health gradients and does not require the estimation of health equivalent incomes. We illustrate the …
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health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
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