SERIES EDITOR PREFACE INTRODUCTION - CONSTRUCTIONS OF HEALTH AT WORK CHAPTER ONE - EFFICIENCY AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF THE MACHINE CHAPTER TWO - EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF ORGANISM CHAPTER THREE - CARE AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF FAMILY CHAPTER FOUR - AGE AND HEALTH: DISCOURSES OF...

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on grandparental...

Diese Studie liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Staatsausgabenstrukturen Österreichs im europäischen Vergleich anhand der COFOG-Daten ("Classification of the Functions of Government") von Eurostat. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt zum einen auf einer Einordnung der Staatsausgabenstrukturen...

The main evaluation objective is to assess to what extent EU Budget Support (BS) operations in South Africa (SA) contributed to achieving sustainable results in the relevant sectors over the period 2000-2011. The evaluation covers 16 Sector Budget Support (SBS) operations, for an amount of...

The main objective of this evaluation was to draw out lessons for future EU cooperation. This report presents the findings of the 2010 Country Level Evaluation of the European Union‘s support to Ethiopia. The evaluation was carried out to provide meaningful feedback to the European Commission,...

The purpose of this study has been twofold: (i) To undertake an evaluation of the 32(out of 33) budget support operations which have been conducted in Mali over 2003 to 2009 by ten Development Partners (DPs) and to provide recommendations on the management of future budget support operations in...