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comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions …
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This paper addresses the question of when and to what extent individuals are affected by major positive and negative life events, including changes in financial situation, marital status, death of child or spouse and being a victim of crime. The key advantage of our data is that we are able to...
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dimensions of well-being: material wellbeing,health, education and participation in two spheres – productive and social …
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In this paper the author argues that social scientists need to do more toprovide policy-relevant research. Rapid technological and economicchange raise new issues about how policy should adjust that are notadequately addressed by older and narrower approaches. The authorsuggests two ways in...
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The health consequences of child labor may take time to manifest themselves. This studyexamines whether children who … and schooling aretreated as chosen without consideration of unobserved abilities or health endowments, childlabor appears … to have small adverse effects on a wide variety of health measures. Someadverse health consequences such as heart disease …
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This report provides a spatial representation of hospital geography in Iowa and of the decisions of patients to patronize hospitals. It begins with a brief analysis of hospital proximity and hospital proximity’s relationship to population distributions and existing hospital capacity. This is...
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Variation in income tax policies and health insurance costs are shown to be theoretically appropriate instruments to … provide health insurance benefits in states with high marginal income tax rates and low hospitalization costs. The model … implies that over the 1983-1995 period, large increases in health insurance costs and reductions in marginal income tax rates …
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health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at olderages. Since the data are at a comparatively young stage … measures utilize doctor diagnosed conditions or biomarker-basedindicators of disease and poor health. But one key finding … emerges – the US ranks poorly onall indicators with the exception of self-reported subjective health status.... …
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In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status(SES) and health of older … individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood eventsare important predictors for labor market and health outcomes in …. Wewill analyze data from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of the Surveyon Health, Aging, and Retirement in …
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Differences in geopolitical regions of Nigeria are not debatable. However, there is no clearconsensus on the dimension of these disparities. In this paper, claims of geopolitical regiondisparities in labor market outcomes are investigated using survey data from Nigeria between1996-1999...
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