-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and … of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic … costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike previously adopted frameworks …

increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

Much research shows that breastfeeding provides short- and long-term health benefits for both mothers and their … children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan …

This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by …

estimation results indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that …

function defined over time use suggest no effect on household production in either country. Estimation of a household model …

the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …