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Education, risk perceptions, and health behaviors

You, Kai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

It is acknowledged that there exists an association between education and health behaviors, but channels through which … suggested to improve health behaviors, health service providers and public health manager should take measures to enhance …

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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....

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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017

We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...

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Should for-profit schools be banned?

Chumacero, Romulo; Paredes, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper uses different methods to evaluate the performance of students of public, subsidized, and private schools; distinguishing among for-profit and non-profit schools.

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DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD HEALTH EXPENDITURE: CASE OF URBAN ORISSA

Bhabesh, Sen; Himanshu Sekhar, Rout - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Little attention has been given to the micro aspects of health research by the researchers, government, policy makers … and development planners. In this connection, the objective of the paper is to increase awareness – not only among health … researchers but also among policy makers and practitioners who use health research findings – about the influence of socioeconomic …

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A Life-Course Perspective on Gender Differences in Cognitive Functioning in India

Velamuri, Malathi; Onur, Ilke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We examine gender differences in four measures of cognitive function among older individuals in India, using the 2010 pilot wave of the Longitudinal Aging Study of India (LASI) survey. We use a life-course approach and estimate the impact of circumstances in childhood, choices in adulthood and...

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Biga’da Bilisim Teknolojileri Kullanımının Öğrencilerin Basarı ve Harcama Düzeylerine Olası Etkileri

Aktas, Erkan; BALKAN, BETÜL; KARAPINAR, KAYANUR - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study is investigated over high school graduate students who have been going on courses at Biga in 2007. For analyse to relationship between their spending with education achievements and using of the data processing technologies of students, were used econometric models. LOGIT and Linear...

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Education and armed conflict: the Kashmir insurgency in the nineties

Parlow, Anton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The experience of the Kashmir insurgency is used, to assess the impact of this armed conflict on educational outcomes of girls and boys who were of school age during the 90's. Girls and boys who went to primary and secondary schools in urban areas of Kashmir during 1990 and 1996 are affected the...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...

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