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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …
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Diese Studie liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Staatsausgabenstrukturen Österreichs im europäischen Vergleich anhand der COFOG-Daten ("Classification of the Functions of Government") von Eurostat. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt zum einen auf einer Einordnung der Staatsausgabenstrukturen...
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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 … height and weight-for-height, and to education, proxied by years of schooling completed, by level. Biases due to household … who still managed to obtain such an education. Studies evidence is then considered on the wage returns to variation in the …
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In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...
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development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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Sleep is a source of energy. This energy is available in limited quantity and individuals must decide when it should be renewed and when it should be consumed. The economics of sleeping and the economics of resource extraction are one and the same. More specifically, utility maximization with...
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
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öffentlicher Ausgaben für Alterssicherung, Gesundheit und Pflege, Leistungen an Arbeitslose sowie Bildung und Familien bis 2060 … Ministeriums. Sie illustriert die Größenordnung und Bandbreite solcher Risiken mit Hilfe von Modellrechnungen für die Entwicklung … Hintergrundszenarien zur Entwicklung von Arbeitsmarkt und gesamtwirtschaftlichem Wachstum gebildet. Anschließend wird die Entwicklung …
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