Showing 1 - 10 of 2,323
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742361
Even though children are legally required to attend school, many do not, especially in the developing world. This study uses rich microdata from Iran to investigate out-of-school children aged 7 to 18. The first finding shows that adolescent out-of-school boys are involved in child labor eight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347935
health and education, including: increased children’s height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216148
-economic status, are examined. The findings show that income and education are the most important socio-economic determinants of … education reconstruction, income distribution, clean environment, improvement of health status and reduction of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867611
Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and life expectancy in a panel dataset of 197 countries over 213 years. By itself, GDP/capita explains more than 64 percent of the variation in life expectancy. The Preston curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496984
Since 2001, an aid consortium known as Gavi has accounted for over half of vaccination expenditure in the 75 eligible countries with an initial per capita GNI below $1,000. Regression discontinuity (RD) estimates show aid significantly displaced other immunization efforts and failed to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020370
Medicaid is a government program that also provides health insurance to the old who have little assets and either low income or catastrophic health care expenses. We ask how the Medicaid rules map into the reality of Medicaid recipiency and what other observable characteristics are important to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011655648
across gender, rural/urban and education stratifications. An exception is low-caste groups where there is some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083845
across gender, rural/urban and education stratifications. An exception is low-caste groups where there is some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888356
This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009566634