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stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …
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The study estimates calories, proteins and fats-income elasticities in sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual time series data for 43 countries covering 1975-2009 that yields a balanced panel was employed for the analysis. The nutrient-income elasticities are estimated based on the aggregate Engel...
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of within-community differences in victimization risk on changes in self-rated and mental health. My results from fixed … effects and instrumental variable estimations point towards substantial negative health effects of actual victimization, which …
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health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …
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This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …
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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than “like” employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a...
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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …
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We analyse the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel … such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the … continually employed. Hence, persons who have poor health are being selected for the pool of the unemployed. This explains why, in …
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paper analysis poverty and health status during pre-reforms and post-reforms periods and compare them to find out that … during which period the decrease in poverty and the increase in health status are better. For the analysis of poverty, people … living below poverty line and for health status analysis life expectancy at birth and infant mortality are used in this study. …
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: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …
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