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We look at the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Côte d'Ivoire and study to which extent cocoa producers' children su®ered from this severe aggregate shock in terms of school enrollment, labor, height stature and morbidity. Using pre-crisis (1985-88) and post- crisis...
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We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suffered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...
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increasingly important issue of the role of targeted marketing strategies by the food and beverage industries in the obesity … minority children. Although US government reports clearly cite the disproportionate rates of obesity among ethnic minority … youth, limited attention is paid to understanding whether the factors that contribute to obesity among children in general …
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overweight and obesity across Europe, and to explore the contribution of level of socio-economic development to cross … and obesity. However, there may be important international differences in the strength and direction of this relationship …-national differences in educational inequalities in overweight and obese adults in Europe. Methods Cross-sectional data, based on self …
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channeled to the health sector up to 2050 for the US, Europe and Japan. We finally assess the potential impact of these health …
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Union healthy-ageing strategy. We use the 2004 Survey on Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and examine the influence of …
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the magnitude of inequalities in mortality and self-assessed health among 22 countries in all parts of Europe. …
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This paper analyzes the role of private storage in a market for a commodity (e.g. natural gas) whose supply is subject to the threat of an irreversible disruption. We focus on the medium term in which seasonality of demand and exhaustibility can be neglected. We characterize the price and...
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