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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …
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We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter....
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Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
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? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject … postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …Abstract Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change …
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This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and … economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource (HHR …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …
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