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bereavement has important consequences for children's long-term capital accumulation in terms of both health and education. These …
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the analysis of issues that are intertwined with who is present in the household, such as the measurement of income … for more detailed and thorough measurement of household composition in future multi-purpose household surveys. …
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addition, consumers' health awareness and the intended use of these vegetables are significant determinants of their demand …
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
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The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children is an equitable and efficient policy with large returns in adulthood. Yet little is known about the mechanisms involved in producing these long-term effects. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343164
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
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-country health studies. However, the validity of vignettes as a means to re-scale across sample populations critically rests on the … seek to test this assumption by applying objective measures of health along with subjective measures and vignettes. Our … fit and significantly changes the cross-country rankings of health vis-à-vis the standard Chopit model. …
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269505
of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …-assessed health (SAH) are employed. Measures of medical care usage like doctor visits result in substantially lower concentration …
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We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial panel structure of our data which allows us to empirically isolate the wage component specific...
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