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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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endogenous fertility. It is shown that development traps due to under investments in health can never appear when fertility is an …
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government invests in public health (Chakraborty, 2004) and the individual survival probability at the end of youth depends on … health expenditure through an S-shaped longevity function. This may give rise to four steady states and, hence, development …
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The debate over the economic effects of military spending continues to develop, with no consensus, but a deepening understanding of the issues and limitations of previous work. A recent survey has suggested that the inclusion of post Cold War data has tended to make finding a negative effect...
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The following note proposes a simple procedure to estimate k parameters of interest in a linear model with potentially k conditionally endogenous variables of interest and m endogenous control variables in the presence of at least one instrumental variable under the assumption of conditional...
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Twin births are often used as an instrument for fertility in models investigating the impact of family size on labour market and child outcomes. However, a large share of twin births (24% in our sample) are the result of fertility treatments, potentially causing twin births to be endogenous and...
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The objective of this paper is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not affected by the presence of simultaneity. To achieve this goal requires an instrumental variable that is correlated with changes in the...
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-effects related to smoking bans, and cigarette prices, and taxes on health behaviors. Our findings show that smoking bans not only had … cigarette prices and taxes affected the health behaviors of disadvantaged population groups. Robustness analyses show that …
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The objective of this paper is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not affected by the presence of simultaneity. To achieve this goal requires an instrumental variable that is correlated with changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113689