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The Appalachian Region has made progress in the various measures of development but still lags behind other national counterparts. Understanding the relationship between poverty and income inequality is important to evaluate how a development strategy would benefit the region. This paper...
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The Appalachian Region has made progress in the various measures of development but still lags behind other national counterparts. Understanding the relationship between poverty and income inequality is important to evaluate how a development strategy would benefit the region. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778461
. It proposes a normative framework to model the influence of educational policy on health outcomes, grounded in Roemerââ … different types of secondary school. We use this reform in two ways: first, to evaluate the health outcomes of different … educational policies under different normative principles; second, to simulate counterfactual distributions of health outcomes by …
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natural setting to explore the impact of educational attainment and of school quality on health and health-related behaviour … evaluate differences in adult health outcomes and health-related behaviour for cohort members exposed to the old selective and …
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This paper explores the role of quality of schooling as a source of inequality of opportunity in health. Substantiating … earlier literature that links differences in education to health disparities, the paper uses variation in quality of schooling … to test for inequality of opportunity in health. Analysis of the 1958 NCDS cohort exploits the variation in type and …
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This study analyses and compares child health in Pakistan, Peru, Jamaica, Russia and South Africa. These countries … health, and in the nature and magnitude of the effects of its determinants. …
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variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective …
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This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …
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In this paper we measure the degree of socio economic inequality in both mental health and general health for the … Catalan population. We find that income is the main contributor to inequality, especially in the case of mental health. The … regional variations in both health measures are striking, with the Barcelona districts faring relatively bad and Lleida being …
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This paper presents a method to compare indices of inequality in health that are based on short-run and long …-run measures of health and income. For pure health inequality (as measured by the Gini coefficient) and income-related health … health mobility inspired by the literature on income mobility. We also show how these measures of mobility can be usefully …
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