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Social capital and health : evidence that ancestral trust promotes health among children of immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2014
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self-assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …
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Social Capital and Health : Evidence that Ancestral Trust Promotes Health Among Children of Immigrants
Ljunge, Martin - 2016
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. The approach addresses reverse causality and concerns that the trust measure picks … trust in explaining self‐assessed health. The finding is robust to accounting for individual, parental, and extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141006
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Adolescent Well-being and Life Satisfaction : impact of Digital Technology Usage
Mihajlović, Iris; Djevojić, Cvijeta; Stanković, Marino - In: Business systems research : a system view accross … 14 (2023) 2, pp. 124-144
Background: Digital technologies have significantly changed the way adolescents perceive the world around them. The perception of the social environment is crucial for their well-being and health. Objectives: This paper aims to evaluate the relationship between the perceived life circumstances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527261
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286503
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Determinants of ill health in Uganda : is it just the wealthy that are more healthy?
Lawson, David - 2004
This paper adopts a reduced form demand approach to analyse the key determinants influencing the health status of individuals in Uganda. In particular, we examine the importance of wealth, relative to other key determinants, and by employing both self reported and anthropometric sickness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535201
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Age-differentiated QALI losses
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
In this paper we evaluate the QALY loss, which may be assigned to the prevalence of specific chronic illnesses and physical handicaps. The analysis is based on an individual self-rating health satisfaction question asked in the British Household Panel Survey data set. This question provides a...
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Gender heterogeneity in self-reported hypertension
Bonsang, Eric; Caroli, Eve; Garrouste, Clémentine - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false negative reporting of hypertension is more frequent among men than among women, even after conditioning on a series of individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate...
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Costly posturing : ceremonies and early child development in China
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017
Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636664
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The scourge of Asian Flu: In utero exposure to pandemic influenza and the development of a cohort of British children
Kelly, Elaine - 2009
This paper examines the impact of in utero exposure to the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957 upon physical and cognitive development in childhood. Outcome data is provided by the National Child Development Study (NCDS), a panel study of a cohort of British children who were all potentially...
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