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Demand for Immunization, Parental Selection, and Child Survival

Lee, Sang-Hyop - Econometric Society - 2004

This study focuses on the estimation of household demand for immunization as well as its technological effect on the … impact of immunization on child survival. However, mothers also engage in complementary behavior by reinforcing endowments …

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Household Production and the Design of the Tax Structure

Anderberg, Dan; Balestrino, Alessandro - In: International Tax and Public Finance 7 (2000) 4, pp. 563-584

This paper amalgamates two topical issues in the economics ofcommodity taxation: the general case for non-uniformity, andthe tax treatment of commodities that are either inputs to householdproduction or close substitutes for household produced goods.Assuming a redistributive objective and that...

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, M. Hakan - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output...

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Education, cognition, health knowledge, and health behavior

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 3, pp. 265-279

Using data from NLSY97, we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive ability does not significantly alter the...

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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013

Using data from NLSY97 we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive ability does not significantly alter the...

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USDA's Healthy Eating Index and Nutrition Information

Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James R.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998

A comprehensive model is developed to measure the extent that nutrition knowledge and diet-health awareness, among other factors, influence an individual's Healthy Eating Index (HEI), USDA's measure of overall diet quality. This is the first study that rigorously attempts to examine variation in...

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Do the Rich Save More in Canada?

Alan, Sule; Atalay, Kadir; Crossley, Thomas F. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013

This paper is an attempt to answer the long standing question of whether more affluent households save a larger fraction of their income. The major difficulty in empirically assessing the relationship between incomes and saving rates is to construct a credible proxy for long-run income –...

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USDA's Healthy Eating Index and Nutrition Information

Variyam, Jayachandran N.; Blaylock, James R.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998

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Socio-economic inequality of immunization coverage in India

Lauridsen, Jørgen; Pradhan, Jalandhar - In: Health Economics Review 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-6

of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … applied to quantify the contributions from socio-demographic factors to inequality in immunization coverage. The results … illiterate at the state level is systematically related to 97% of predictable socioeconomic inequalities in full immunization …

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Integrated delivery of primary health care for humans and animals

Schwabe, Calvin - In: Agriculture and Human Values 15 (1998) 2, pp. 121-125

Partially because of the high cost of developing and maintaining cold chains, systems needed to keep heat-labile vaccines under adequate refrigeration from their points of manufacture to their administration in the field, the Joint WHO/FAO Expert Committee on Zoonoses (i.e., the approximately...

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