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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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that the vaccine reinstatement substantially restored vaccination intentions. …
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We study the relationship between trust and vaccination. We show theoretically that vaccination rates are higher in … find that countries perceived as less corrupt and more liberal experience higher vaccination rates. Furthermore, they are … less likely to adopt a mandatory vaccination policy. One unit of the Corruption Perception Index (scaled from 0 to 10) is …
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In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent … vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic … granularity. We nd that vaccination take-up as of November 2021 is positively associated with pre-vaccine COVID-19- related deaths …
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Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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in granting broad worldwide access to vaccination. The accumulated delays in providing effective Covid-19 vaccine …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the …-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to that of their compatriots who stay in the country of origin. Isolating … cultural effects can best gauge self-selection and host country effects on the health of emigrants with longer time abroad. We …
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comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health …
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for cities that are farther from the COVID-19 epicenter, are exposed to less migration, have more responsive public health … systems, and have higher-capacity utilization of health systems. Social distancing and a less burdened health system are …
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a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black …
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