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underemployed are more likely to participate in the labor force and work more hours using yearly cross-sectional data from Turkey …
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in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable … consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI).We find that in Turkey education is the most important factor that affects the … health problem in Turkey at all levels of education. Further, alcohol consumption and schooling are positively related and it …
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This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … study provides a baseline for further research on the various aspects of health behaviors in Turkey …
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This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by … quantiles. This implies that females have higher tendency to be obese in Turkey.Our findings also imply that the positive effect …
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We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
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Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...
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The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...
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Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
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This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...
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