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, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …
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Until recently, academia has largely neglected the impact of religion on sustainable development. However, empirical studies have shown that religion remains important in many societies and that its importance has been increasing since the beginning of the new millennium. This paper reviews the...
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outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …
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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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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...
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education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
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