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This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …
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Using data from a most recent national household survey in China, we provide new evidence for the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and labor market attainments. In contrast to previous studies, we find a non-linear relationship between BMI and employment / wages, especially for women....
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carefully, including health, occupational sorting, self-esteem, and discrimination. Our findings are in favor of pure …
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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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This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … perceived good health. …
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interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …
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Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …
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anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based … equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual income's representativeness. By assuming an hypothetical empiric … policies to cope with eventual not desired anthropometric effects on income distribution. …
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results indicate that economic opportunity, as measured by the unemployment rate and the change in per capita income …
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In this paper two dynamic models of an artist’s behavior and arts labor supply have been developed. Both are based on a household production function approach and on the assumption that artists are multiple-job-holders. In the first model proposed here an artist is depicted as someone who is...
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