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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703408
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642153
Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462708
This paper uses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2001) data in conjunctions with Environmental Protection Agency data to investigate on how individual health habits, air outdoor pollution and diseases combine to affect the likelihood of good health status and the amount of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005455486
Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666069
The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on …, with coresidence burdens on children creating disincentives for parents to invest in their health. Studying Japanese data … on the treated; and (iii) that parents with high care needs and limited resources, typically widowed mothers, are in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618304
Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008865959
Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828373
Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007, this chapter attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858039
We focus on the impact of migrants’ remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which is far greater than that out of non-migrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991517