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-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our …
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Health economists have studied the determinants of the expected value of health status as a function of medical and … additional benefit, viz. a reduced variability of health status. Using OECD health data for 24 countries between 1960 and 2004 … comparatively effective in reducing variability. -- production of health ; control over health status ; Gini coefficient …
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Past research has provided evidence of the role of some personal characteristics as risk factors for depression. However, few studies have examined jointly their specific impact and whether country characteristics change the probability of being depressed. In general, this is due to the use of...
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This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively … differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer … of primary and specialist health care services at ages 25-35, without impacts on emergency room admissions. The reform …
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from Bogota's Secretariat of Health in a field experiment, we measure the impact of various norm nudges, including trending … influencing minority behaviors, offering valuable insights for developing targeted and impactful public health strategies. …
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life-saving interventions within the health care sector. An online discrete choice experiment was conducted with a sample …
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disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …
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linked employeremployee administrative data from Hungary, that is linked to rich individual-level administrative health …
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We examine the labour supply response of senior doctors in England following a reform of the public sector pension system that moved employees from a final salary to a career average pension plan. Exploiting the staggered rollout of the reform across narrowly defined age groups, we find that...
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