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How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...
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health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …
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century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …
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primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health using the Katz Index of Activities of Daily Living … bad health both in term of the Index of ADL and mortality. Effects of gender on the Index of ADL and on mortality are … level of the oldest-old and of his/her spouse, etc., plays an insignificant role in the health of oldest-old. Oldest …
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We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …
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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 generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …
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We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions …
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Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti …
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