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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251487
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The economic burden of chronic diseases : estimates and projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of noncommunicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653537
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Human capital : challenges for Russia
Mau, Vladimir Aleksandrovič - 2013
qualitative leap in the development of education, healthcare and the pension system. We need fundamental changes in these sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398286
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023
sugar exposure. We find t hat p renatal e xposure t o d erationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014231858
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Prenatal sugar consumption and latelife human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
sugar exposure. We find that prenatal exposure to derationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369003
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health : analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic scores
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2022
sugar exposure. We find that prenatal exposure to derationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466318
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2017
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952337
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2019
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891217
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Intergenerational Social Mobility Based on the Investments in Human Capital : Evidence of the Long-Term Results of PROSPERA in Health
Gutierrez, Juan-Pablo; Shamah-Levy, Teresa; Bertozzi, … - 2021
health and education, including: increased children’s height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216148