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health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269658
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271834
Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many blood banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468119
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278815
Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many blood banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959598
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the … restricted to tied movers and refugees. We use 60 percent of the median in the distribution of equivalent disposable as poverty … line. Data comes from two large panels based on administrative data. We find that immigrants have higher poverty rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763876
health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514852
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765232
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351705
We assess the long-term effects of managerial stress on aging and mortality. First, we show that exposure to industry distress shocks during the Great Recession produces visible signs of aging in CEOs. Applying neural-network based machine-learning techniques to pre- and post-distress pictures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377269