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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement … increasing women's retirement age to be equal to men's …
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health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … the prevalence of three adult health risk factors - obesity, smoking, and heavy drinking - as an additional proxy for … latent health status. This extension of the Human Capital Index could also be useful for assessing the state of human capital …
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The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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