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Wealthier and Healthier? China's Recent Health Achievements in Comparative Perspective

Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2007

We examine whether China's remarkable reduction in income poverty has been accompanied by comparable progress in health. Our findings are fourfold: (a) province-level rates of improvement in life expectancy were higher in the 1990s than in the 1970s and the 1980s, and were lowest in the 1980s....

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Reducing Spanish Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health : The Influence of Tobacco Consumption

Pascual, Marta - 2007

Smoking is one of the largest causes of death and disease in the European Union. The aim of this paper is to model the probability of an individual being smoker in Spain as a function of a range of socio-economic characteristics, including the individual's gender, age, marital status, education,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731643

Health and Sanitation in Brazil (Saude E Saneamento No Brasil)

Mendonca, Mario Jorge Cardoso; Seroa da Motta, Ronaldo - 2005

It was significant the reduction of child mortality rate associated with waterborne diseases in Brazil in the last two decades. Applying an epidemiological model we were able to identify that not only improvement in sanitation coverage as well as access to educational and health services were...

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Lasting Impact on Health from Natural Disasters, Potential Mechanisms and Mitigating Effects

Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2021

Exposure to extreme shocks in early life is found to have lasting impact in adulthood. Exploiting the variation in exposure measured by age and intensity of earthquake, we evaluate the impact of a 7.7 MW earthquake in Gujarat, India, on the health stock of children who were in utero or below...

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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...

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Girls and Boys : Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes

Lee, Soohyung - 2018

would have been 2 percent higher absent the crisis and that birth outcomes for girls were no better than those for boys … variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls …, findings that differ from the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis. This relative disadvantage of girls is more severe among newborns who …

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Exercise, Physical Activity and Healthcare Utilization : A Review of Literature for Older Adults

Sari, Nazmi - 2013

The impacts of exercise and physical activity on healthcare utilization of older adults have been studied using either (1) clinical trials or retrospective cohort studies focusing on older people who participated in various exercise intervention programs, or (2) survey data. This review focuses...

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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010

Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this...

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How does marriage affect physical and psychological health? A survey of the longitudinal evidence

Wilson, Chris M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2005

This paper examines an accumulating modern literature on the health benefits of relationships like marriage. Although much remains to be understood about the physiological channels, we draw the judgment, after looking across many journals and disciplines, that there is persuasive longitudinal...

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Income volatility and health

Halliday, Timothy J. - 2007

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...

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