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KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures … 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 survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … and service economies. The evidence is that positive technology shocks to agriculture have played a key role in igniting a … transition from traditional to modern agriculture and to long-term economic growth in almost all countries. Improvements in …
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Much of the recent literature on price transmission focuses on whether price changesoccurring at one stage of the food sector are fully transmitted in changes to retail prices. Therole of market structure in determining the degree of price transmission is often emphasised,the presumption being...
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explore a plausible route of causationbetween nutrition and poverty, the most urgent task is to disregard the … policies, therehave been few attempts to examine nutrition in less-developed countriesthrough an economic history lens.[...] …
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[...]In this paper we attempt to contribute to such an improved mapping by analyzing the nutritional status of a representative sample of households in Syria. According to the preliminary results of this analysis, average levels of nutrient intake are relatively high in Syria, indicating a...
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We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of …
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infant mortality for about 150000 children born in 1970-1997, merged by birth-cohort witha state panel containing information …
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Der hessische RKW Arbeitskreis "Gesundheit im Betrieb" arbeitet seit über 10 Jahren zusammen, um das Thema Gesundheit … Umsetzung der Aufgabe "Sicherheit und Gesundheit in der Arbeitswelt" zu überzeugen. Unsere Botschaft lautet: Gesundheit ist die …
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Motivated by the different development stages of both, the venture capital (VC) as well as the life science industry in the USA and Europe, we investigate portfolio strategies of US-American and European VC firms active in this sector. We analyse portfolios of 88 VCs financing a total of 1050...
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This report presents the outcomes of the “Pilot on eHealth Indicators” study,carried out by empirica in association with IPSOS on behalf of the EuropeanCommission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General. The dataused for this report were collected by means of a survey of primary...
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