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, controlling for demographic, economic, and health-related characteristics of the localities, while including geographic xed e ects …
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Publicly financed Community Based-Health Insurance (CBHI) schemes are typically implemented in developing countries to … foster healthcare utilization and improve health outcomes among low-income households. Using the Demographic and Health … Survey from 2005 to 2016, we estimate the effects of the Ethiopian CBHI on children's health. Difference …
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In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern …. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health … recession began) and in 2013 and 2019 (i.e. at time points during the recession). Self-reported physical and mental health …
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In this note, I address the trade-off between children's health and parental preference toward similarity with children …. In my model, better-off individuals mate genetically close partners and then use wealth to treat their children's health … problems, caused by inbreeding depression. As a result, the relationship between parental wealth and children's health includes …
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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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COVID-19 and the adoption of technologies in various sectors of the economy, ranging from health care facilities to …
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An important question in representative democracies is how to ensure that politicians behave in the best interest of citizens rather than their own private interests. Aside from elections, one of the few institutional devices available to regulate the actions of politicians is their pay...
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We derive a model in which firms operate in an epidemic environment and internalize infections among their employees in the workplace. The model is calibrated to fit the properties of the Covid-19 epidemic. We show that firms have incentives to fight against infections and can do so very...
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Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...
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We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability …
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