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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …
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Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
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One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simple approach to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows comparison...
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input variables affecting the Q-HDI, namely the health sector capacity index, pupil-teacher ratio index, and economic … on these results, this paper suggests that countries invest in health and education sector capacities, promote economic … diversity and adopt macroeconomic policies that leverage improvements in health and education quality, including, in particular …
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health status across Europe. Variations in HLE, however, do not necessarily reflect underlying differences in health and … can elicit misleading conclusions about people's health status and potentially turn HLE into an improper measure of … educational differences as opposed to a measure of health gaps. For example, low-, medium-, and highly educated individuals in …
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