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relationship between female education and child mortality in Indonesia. Feamle education is measured in terms of both years of … education and literacy. Both primary and secondary schooling significantly decrease the probability of child death. Literacy is … insignificant. When the sample is divided into urban and rural locations, primary and secondary education are signficant in reducing …
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calibrated version we find that education always in- creases if life expectancy rises but the effect on the capital stock is … the various potentially offsetting effects at work in models with endogenous education and overlapping generations which …
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longevity increases the incentive to get education, which in turn has ever-lasting effects on growth through a human capital …
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This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education … survival, a decline in an exogenous mortality rate reduces precautionary demand for children and increases parental investment … in each child. Once mortality is endogenized, population growth becomes a hump-shaped function of income per capita. At …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …
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We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several … schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on … subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148878
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to … donors should adopt a rights-based approach to adolescent fertility and shift their focus from the proximate to distal causes … differential impacts of adolescent fertility in different contexts, and 3) investigating other the impact of adolescent fertility …
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, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts …
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This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...
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are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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