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Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these allergies result in large and consistent decrements in cognitive functioning, problem solving ability and speed, focus and energy. However, the impact of seasonal allergies on...
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …
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the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from …
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half decades (1990-2014). We considered three main pillars of welfare - health, income & consumption, education - and we …
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The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968505
-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …
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This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on fertility, health and education outcomes of … affect her children's birthweight and an individual's self-reported health. The impact on educational achievement is also …
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This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative … showing that these effects vary heterogeneously over the life-cycle – with the largest health improvements occurring among men …
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