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Are bad health and pain making us grumpy? : an empirical evaluation of reporting heterogeneity in rating health system responsiveness

Fiorentini, Gianluca; Ragazzi, Giovanni; Robone, Silvana - 2014

This paper considers the influence of patients' characteristics on their evaluation of a health system's responsiveness, that is, a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users regarding non-health enhancing aspects of care (Valentine et al. 2003a). Since...

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Strengthening Functional Community-Provider Linkages : Lessons from the Indore Urban Health Programme

Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

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Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper

Vacca, Ryan G.; Chen, James Ming; Dratler, Jay; Folsom, … - 2014

On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an interest in IP and public health who met to discuss problems and potential...

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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?

Horn, Brady - 2017

This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases impact worker health in the United States. We consider self-reported measures of general, mental, and physical health. We use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993 to 2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. Among men, we find...

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Do minimum wage Increases influence worker health?

Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; Strain, … - 2017

This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences...

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Rising Mortality Rate in Andhra Pradesh: Towards a demystification

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian State – Andhra Pradesh. Although the state’s performance in socio-economic sphere seems to be not that impressive, its performance in demographic transition during the last...

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Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?

Horn, Brady - 2017

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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment

Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...

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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Early Childhood Development

Berthelon, Matias - 2018

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

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