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This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …
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While there is evidence of gender differences in leaders' behavior, less is known about what drives these gaps. This … differently. Consistent with this interpretation, we show that the gender differences we find are driven exclusively by mayors who … greater gender discrimination. Taken together, the results suggest that female and male leaders face different electoral …
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, morbidities and mortality in India. We draw upon the surveillance experience of four selected States of India namely Uttar Pradesh …
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mortality have a similar spatial distribution. Preliminary evidence confirms the hypothesis and suggests a positive association … of ambient PM on excess mortality in Northern Italy. …
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Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and nonmedical inputs, often finding small marginal effects of the former. This paper argues that both types of input have an additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health...
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In this paper, we address the issue of spurious correlation in the production of health in a systematic way. Spurious correlation entails the risk of linking health status to medical (and nonmedical) inputs when no links exist. This note first presents the bounds testing procedure as a method to...
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or physician. However, this level of analysis is mostly limited to the use of in-hospital mortality rates and is …
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that have been distinguished by Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999), viz. the cost of morbidity and the cost of mortality … (their "red herring" hypothesis claims that neglecting the mortality component results in excessive estimates of future …
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