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health preventive behavior in dengue-endemic areas. The main results suggest that repeated exposure to health information …
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compensating differential for STI risk. I introduce a compensating differential for pregnancy risk as a novel source through a … simple model that incorporates both STI risk and pregnancy risk. I empirically test this using a rich panel dataset of 19 … regressions and find that compensating differentials for STI risk and pregnancy risk are sources of the price premium for …
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
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data to support the redesign of PHC and solve pernicious healthcare challenges in countries, digital health assessments … intend to be an input and the first step towards the digital journey and to plan and prioritize what a country's health … system of the future would look like. As expressed in the WHO's Global Digital Health Strategy, approved by WHO member states …
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This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...
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investigated using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys in six African countries. Empirical ndings suggest that road …
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Malawi, using data from Malawi 2004 Demographic and Health Survey and population censuses. Since AIDS was the dominating …
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Overweight and obesity are becoming serious issues in many developing countries. Since undernutrition is not completely eradicated yet, these countries face a dual burden that obstructs economic development. We analyze the nutrition transition in Indonesia using longitudinal data from the...
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infrastructure and the Demographic and Health Surveys collected in six African countries. Firstly we show that living in proximity to …
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This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS has impacted the labor market in South Africa, focusing on its effect on wages and employment. This is done by matching individual level data with group specific cumulative AIDS mortality rates. Exploiting the panel nature of the data, I remove individuals...
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