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Employment-related demands and resources : new ways of researching stress in flexible work arrangements
Vahle-Hinz, Tim; Kirschner, Katharina; Thomson, Maja - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 24 (2013) 3, pp. 199-221
, empirical evidence is provided for the employment relationship as a new source of stress in flexible work. Employment … stress. Furthermore, we show that control as a conventional task-related resource buffers the health impact of employment …-related demands, highlighting the importance of considering both taskrelated and employment-related aspects of stress in flexible work …
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In-utero exposure to violence and child health in Iraq
Sardoschau, Sulin - 2023
, type and perpetrator of violence, I isolate the effect of stress from access to prenatal care. I show that the results hold …
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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance: Which role do health indicators play?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...
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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294391
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Income, income inequality and health: Evidence from China
Li, Hongbin; Zhu, Yi - 2006
This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the earlier literature has drawn on data from developed...
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Household responses to information on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Malawi
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...
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Access to health infrastracture and child health development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa
Tanaka, Shinsuke - 2010
A growing body of literature shows that child health has substantial long-term economic impacts. This study examines whether, and to what extent, increased access to health infrastructure leads to better child health status as measured by weight-for-age z-scores. To assess the causal...
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - In: ifo DICE Report 15 (2017) 3, pp. 20-25
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The global joint distribution of income and health
Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008
We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy...
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