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Economic vs. epidemiological approaches to measuring the human capital impacts of infectious disease elimination

Chuard, Caroline; Schwandt, Hannes; Becker, Alexander D.; … - 2022

A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...

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Natural resources, demand for skills, and schooling choices

Bütikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector - the Norwegian petroleum industry - on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...

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Another day, another visit : impact of Arkansas' mandatory waiting period for women seeking an abortion by demographic groups

Altındaǧ, Onur; Joyce, Theodore J. - 2022

two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas increased the waiting period for an abortion from 24 to 48 hours … analyze the immediate effect of Arkansas's 2015 mandatory waiting period (MWP) law on abortion rates. We use de …-identified, individual-level data from the Arkansas Department of Health (DOH) on all abortions performed in Arkansas from 2000 to 2020 …

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