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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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and health indicators incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, given the huge set … European emerging economies are more mixed, especially for MDGs related to poverty and health. All of the Pan …
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This paper investigates the effects of health on wages by controlling for a number of problems: first, the unobservable … genetic endowment may cause an omitted variable bias; second, using a self-reported health variable could induce measurement … the above issues in one framework. The results show that good health raises wages for both women and men. I find the …
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noise. Using pilot program data from Tanzania, I exploit variation in the location and timing of survey enumeration to …
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We examine the correlation between the generosity of clinicians – as measured in a laboratory experiment – and the quality of care in their normal practices under three different intrinsic incentive schemes. Specifically, we observe clinicians in their normal work environment, when a peer...
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supplementation program in Tanzania. We find that parents strongly reinforce the higher cognitive endowments of children who received …
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This paper investigates the vulnerabilities of health care systems in OECD and BRIICS countries to adverse secular … setting of health care systems, such as the public-private mix and the main sources of revenues, and the need to balance …
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Health-promoting leadership has won more important than ever. These include, for example, contribute to the changing … workplaces, the demographic development and the variety of change processes in companies. A holistic understanding of health and … scientifi c fi ndings off er a number ways to align leadership behavior benefi cial to health. For success it requires not only …
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expectancy, in 2007, for European coun- tries, are: education, gender, health, earnings, and marital status. The influence of …
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