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This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role against the pandemic, significantly reducing … October and December 2020). We interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and the quality of …
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This paper assesses inequality in longevity across education and gender groups in 23 OECD countries around 2011. Data … and 65 by gender and education. These estimates show that, on average, the gap in life expectancy between high and low …. Other measures of inequalities in longevity by education (such as country averages of age-standardised mortality rates and …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
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using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
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Several studies have found a positive association between education and health. Confounding factors that a ect both … education choices and health, such as (ob- served) parental background and (unobserved) intelligence, may play an important role … in shaping this association. In this paper we estimate the impact of education on diseases in old age, accounting for …
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. In particular, policy settings should be adjusted to increase access to good quality education and healthcare for rural …
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This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non … patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a sufficiently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. Motivated by the observation that medical care explains...
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