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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …
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Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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-old children going through the Peruvian education system. Most studies that have tried to determine the effect of economic shocks … on human capital (investment in education, skills training, health, and well-being) have focused on an analysis of …-out rate or the rate of ‘over-age schooling’ (of children at least one year older than the age expected for their grade). The …
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Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families …, communities and children, including level of education and access to public services,. Public policy has a crucial role in … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …
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I suggest a new game called wise exploitation. It is characterized by a small investment of the exploiting party to either breed the exploited party or educate the exploited party not to detect exploitation. Thereby a higher productivity than cooperation or prisoners´ dilemma is achieved. The...
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children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …
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The role of Eritrean women in thirty years war of independence brought major changes and reflects in the present demography and economy of Eritrea in the development arena. Their participation in the economy contributes to local production and income by filling the gaps left by men who died in...
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at first birth. While previous studies find that earlier-born children are better off, this paper finds no effects. …
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The labour market in Romania is facing some imbalances arising from the negative demographic trends, legislative instability, poor correlation between the educational programs with the labour market, low labour productivity. The European Union labour market strategy aims at achieving 75%...
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