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Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking … equilibrium characterized by low income and high malaria, to a new equilibrium with higher income and lower rates of malaria. This … chains: (a) the ability for decreases in malaria to increase income, (b) the ability for increases in income to reduce …
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This paper is based on an ongoing joint work with David Sahn and Xiaobo Zhang.
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Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity … and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual …'s lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an individual's health has three dimensions: current health status, binge …
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We investigate the relationship between changes in socioeconomic factors and the emerging coexistence of under and overweight among adults in China during 1991-2000. Our key questions are: (1) whether any socioeconomic factor explains both increasing overweight (Body Mass Index (BMI)less than or...
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is self-reportedjob risk of low back pain, the most recurring health risk faced by farmers. The job-relatedrisky activity ….e., individualdifferences in other health-related activities are influential determinants of the observedwage-risk tradeoff.Keywords: …
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. Since patient health would continue to decline without treatment, these labor supply responses are underestimates of the …
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. These outcomes are hypothesized to be related to prices of food, drink and health care services and products, the respondent … and health care prices. Separate analyses are undertaken for men and women due to basic physiological differences. Results …
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investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational …
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This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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