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the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
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the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990938
. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658709
sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health-promoting decisions. …
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This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax … federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy … suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower …
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The objective of this paper is to assess the relationship between the health and the income from work of wage earners … and self-employed workers in Cameroon. Health status is measured by a self-assessment of an individual's health; and … a simultaneous equation model to explore the relationship between health and income, allowing for the endogeneity of …
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We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and …
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One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …
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