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[Rezension von: McGuire, Robert Allen; Coelho, Philip R. P., Parasites, pathogens, and progress, diseases and economic development]
Weil, David N. - In: Journal of economic literature 50 (2012) 3, pp. 819-821
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Parasites, pathogens, and progress : diseases and economic development
McGuire, Robert A.; Coelho, Philip R. P. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508326
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Essays on the determinants of changing employment and wage structures
Senftleben-König, Charlotte - 2015
This thesis consists of four essays that contribute to the empirical literature on the determinants of recent changes in the employment and wage structure in Germany. The first essay analyzes recent employment growth at the lower tail of the wage distribution and its relation to technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429473
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Mortality versus morbidity in the demographic transition
Aksan, Anna-Maria; Chakraborty, Shankha - In: European economic review : EER 70 (2014), pp. 470-492
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The growth costs of malaria
MacCarthy, Francis Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001451175
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The Growth Costs of Malaria
McCarthy, Desmond - 2000
cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a … morbidity. The data, however, do not suggest that tropical location is destiny: controlling for climate, we find that access to … rural healthcare and income equality influence malaria morbidity. In a cross-section growth framework, we find a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471234
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E. - 2018
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906530
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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
Bloom, David E. - 2019
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro-based approach tends to find smaller effects than the macro-based approach, thus presenting a micro-macro puzzle regarding the economic return on health. We reconcile these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867458
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COVID-19, Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention, Lockdown, Epidemic Growth, Regression Analysis
Nanovsky, Simeon; Arynov, Zhanibek; Alzhanova, Aigul - 2021
This article explores the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs also know as quarantine restrictions) on the reduction of the growth rate in new COVID-19 cases in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It turns out that empirically NPIs gradually reduce the growth rate of new cases. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231688
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The Growth Costs of Malaria
McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2021
cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a … morbidity. The data, however, do not suggest that tropical location is destiny: controlling for climate, we find that access to … rural healthcare and income equality influence malaria morbidity. In a cross-section growth framework, we find a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248096