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Survival of the weakest? Culling evidence from the 1918 flu pandemic
Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2019
When a negative shock affcts a cohort in utero, two things may happen: first, the population suffers detrimental consequences in later life; and second, some will die as a consequence of the shock, either in utero or early in life. The latter effect, often referred to as culling, may induce a bias...
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: Analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
van den Berg, Gerard J.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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Does fiscal decentralization affect regional disparities in health? Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy
Di Novi, Cinzia; Piacenza, Massimiliano; Robone, Silvana; … - 2019
Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of their spending with taxes raised locally by themselves are more accountable towards their citizens. Whilst evidence on improvements in spending efficiency is relatively common,...
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The Freer the Fatter? A Panel Study of the Relationship between Body-Mass Index and Economic Freedom
Ljungvall, Åsa - 2013
Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have been observed around the world are related to economic...
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Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data
Welander, Anna - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in the late 1990s to reduce the debt burdens of poor countries, and explicitly linked the initiative...
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
of this paper is upon the domestic pharmaceutical market in India, where policy makers often face a trade-off between … what has been called 'high quality' and 'affordable quality' medicines. With India being recognised as the pharmacy of the … medicines available in India. This paper, by mapping the perspectives of several stakeholders, attempts to bring clarity on …
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Prevention of chronic diseases: Reorienting primary health systems in India
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya; Tomar, Priyanka; Joshi, Pallavi - 2016
premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child … chronic diseases in India - the highest in the world - and prevent human and economic costs associated with them. State …
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Investigating survivorship bias: The case of the 1918 flu pandemic
Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2021
Estimates of the effect of fetal health shocks may suffer from survivorship bias. The fetal origins literature seemingly agrees that survivorship bias is innocuous in the sense that it induces a bias toward zero. Arguably, however, selective mortality can imply a bias away from zero. In the case...
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Impact of Preventive Health Care on Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - 2007
, productivity and profitability that India's growth potential and global competitiveness depends substantially. Unfortunately, while …
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Design of Incentives in Community based Health Insurance Schemes
Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2003
... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...
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