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Education and mental health : causal effects and intra-family spillovers
Özer, Mustafa; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2024
is limited. We analyze the impact of education on mental health using survey data on self-reported health of Turkish … women. To deal with the potential endogeneity, we rely on a natural experiment: an increase in the compulsory education from … 5 to 8 years in 1997. The results suggest that education has a favorable effect on mental health, physical health, and …
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Electoral rules, social structure, and public goods provision : outcomes, spending, and policies
Selway, Joel Sawat - In: Studies in comparative international development : SCID 56 (2021) 3, pp. 384-411
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The Politics of Service Delivery in Pakistan: Political Parties and the Incentives for Patronage, 1988-1999
Hasnain, Zahid - In: The Pakistan Development Review 47 (2008) 2, pp. 129-151
This paper examines the impact of the political party structure on the incentives for politicians to focus on patronage versus service delivery improvements in Pakistan. By analysing inter-provincial variations in the quality of service delivery in Pakistan, the paper argues that the more...
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Problem-solving and Learning for Public Services and Public Management : Theory and Practice
Kinder, Tony; Stenvall, Jari - 2024
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Problem-solving and Public Services -- Chapter 3. Public Value, Values, and Public Services -- Chapter 4. E-public Services -- Chapter 5. Local Public Sector Innovation -- Chapter 6. Organising in Self-organising Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Learners, Teachers...
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Television, health, and happiness: A natural experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2021
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is unclear. Negative consequences portrayed in the literature raise the question whether this popular pastime constitutes an economic good or bad, and hence serves as a prime example...
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Handling the endogeneity of income to health using a field experiment in Taiwan
Tseng, Fu-Min; Petrie, Dennis - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620485
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014
This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370275
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The implications for health, depression, and life satisfaction from a permanent increase in income for the disadvantaged elderly : evidence from Taiwan
Tseng, Fu-Min; Petrie, Dennis James - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 72 (2014) 3, pp. 311-336
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Measuring the epidemiological impact of a false negative : evidence from a natural experiment
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2021
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