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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in …
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-born cohorts. -- famine ; health ; regression discontinuity ; Greece …This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949069
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316222
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable … may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
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education system is a long-term mission and involves raising its pedagogical strength and orientation towards professional needs …
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adverse effects on the economy and the health sector. More specifically, over the 2008-2015 period, GDP was reduced by 29 ….5 percent, wages were reduced by 35-45 percent, private consumption dropped by 30 percent and health expenditure declined by 41 … public expenditures, the fight against corruption and the underground economy, the control of health expenditures, and the …
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In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern …. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health … recession began) and in 2013 and 2019 (i.e. at time points during the recession). Self-reported physical and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610882
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern …. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health … recession began) and in 2013 and 2019 (i.e. at time points during the recession). Self-reported physical and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612637
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this … early life health and later life home care use. We also account for selective attrition. Our empirical findings show that … general health problems in youth is an important health predictor for later life home care use. A large portion of this effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895594