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Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … adult height over aperiod of 150 years by distributing the measured adult height over the age distribution of the male … population. This calculation creates a measure of the age-distributed height of the laborforce, which then permits an analysis …
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Spatial dependence in individual-tree diameter, and growth model residuals was characterised for an even-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the dominance of competitive mechanisms and micro-site influences...
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Just like the blind men in the popular story of perceiving the elephant, the three major constituencies participating in the energy debate have greatly different perceptions of the problem. The constituency that is worried about climate change believes the energy problem is caused by profligate...
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Household expenditures serve as one of crucial indicators of living standard. Monitoring of its extent and its structure at regional level is source of information of particular importance – situation and quality of life of particular region´s population. The paper is focused on possibilities...
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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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improvement in the socio-economic indicators i.e. education and health services; relaxation of traditional controls i …
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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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Over the past century, all OECD countries have been characterized by a dramatic increase in economic conditions, life expectancy and educational attainment. This paper provides a positive theory that explains how an economy might evolve when the longevity of its citizens both influences and is...
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Analysis of Income, Health, and the Duration of the Pension Benefit Spell), I analyze the relationship between duration of the … differential results with respect to health. This relationship is crucial and causal for a potential structural pattern of … redistribution between different income and health groups, induced by the public pension system. Evidence for such redistribution …
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treatment and rising incomes can explain these two. The main theme of this chapter is that the rapid growth in health care … production and accumulation of health, namely improvements in medical treatment and rising incomes. According to this model …, these two factors can explain all of the increase in health care spending and more than 60% of the increase in life …
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