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structure of transportation planning models, and the adequacy of models and travel networks for walking and cycling. Drawing …
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Current evidence on associations between modifiable environmental characteristics and transport-related cycling remains … concept study used panoramic photographs of cycling environments to capture direct responses to the physical environment. We … examined which depicted environmental characteristics were associated to environments’ invitingness for transportation cycling …
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
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The effect of unemployment on mortality is the object of a lively literature. However, this literature is characterized … regional (NUTS 2) data from 23 European countries to estimate a multivariate regression of mortality. The estimating equation … allows for a quadratic relationship between unemployment and mortality. We control for various other determinants of …
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279262
A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653371
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response … organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual …
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This study tests five hypotheses concerning trends in gender differences in accidents mortality and accident … differences have decreased for amount of driving, motor vehicle accidents mortality, and occupational accidents mortality. However …, for many types of accidents mortality, gender differences were stable or increased; these trends often resulted from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818170
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia … authors examine 100,000 life histories in 100 rural communities in Western Europe and Asia to analyze the demographic response … organization, climate, food prices, and real wages to compare mortality responses to adversity. Their research at the individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004972996