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This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …
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When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based …
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good … that the results are quite sensitive to the inclusion of controls reflecting demographics, human capital and health status …
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combination of public health measures, rising living standards, and new medical knowledge all played their part in this. Even if … AMR increases, the continuing effect of these factors and of new public health measures can limit the negative …
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We explore the effects of decentralization on education and health in Ethiopia using an original database covering all …
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