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’ choice of health service providers. However, we have little empirical evidence about the impact of information provided on …
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In our sample of 1,937 US mergers (1995 to 2011), 8.4 percent of all targets received oers with negative premiums where … negative premiums. Empirical tests provide substantial support for overvaluation and hidden earnouts, but only weak support for … market liquidity. Moreover, we show that the theory for negative premiums generalizes to positive premiums and predicts lower …
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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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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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survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also … worsen mortality, especially for the poor. Though relative income has a strong negative effect on personal health, we show …
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However much we appreciate the enormous scientific contribution by Professor Ronald Inglehart, who initiated the international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the World Values Survey data...
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However much we appreciate the enormous scientific contribution by Professor Ronald Inglehart, who initiated the international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the World Values Survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275133
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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Although, currently many people live longer and enjoy the benefit of better health than their previous generations …, many countries face an important challenge: large differences among population’s health. Thus, health inequality is met … disadvantaged groups and the rest of the population. Therefore, in this paper I analyzed the health inequalities between the …
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Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree …
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