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maximize underlying health or longevity. Rather, they choose labor supply and medicine in light of potential side effects in an … effort to jointly manage two forms of human capital: their health and their work experience. I use the framework to examine … objective health measures along with reports of physical ailments. This allows me to model each HIV drug along two dimensions of …
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We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate in a panel of U.S. young adults who had completed their …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome di- mension. Second, we apply a semi …
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. Examples of outcomes considered include general consumption patterns at a moment in time, savings and the rate of growth of … consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of own health, fertility, and child quality or well …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms …
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This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
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Abstract Purpose - How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change … openness and financial liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter …? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject …
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