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We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …
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hypertension diagnosis, with larger and more precisely estimated effects for males, middle-age individuals (as opposed to older … individuals who at baseline report a previous hypertension diagnosis. Overall, our analysis suggests that the effectiveness of the …
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specific, we use preventive care utilization and hypertension management as key indicators to assess the performance of disease … prevention, hypertension awareness and management. These findings reveal the vulnerability of older adults with CI in disease …
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Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada …
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and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
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Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
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The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
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Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted …
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, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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