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Life expentancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660237
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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A human development index by internal migrational status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396465
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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death
Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003
death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334361
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The effect of health improvements due to tobacco control on earnings in the United States
Bowser, Diana; Canning, David - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 34/36, pp. 5021-5030
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225791
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Educational inequalities in longevity in 18 OECD countries
Murtin, Fabrice; Mackenbach, Johan P.; Jasilionis, Domantas - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167019
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Trade in health products and population health : a long-run relation
Bhattacharjee, Ayona; Chanda, Rupa - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 46 (2023) 1, pp. 182-207
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014302815
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515874
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State capacity and health outcomes : an empirical analysis
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Gillani, Seemab - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 11 (2017) 2, pp. 671-697
health outcomes using cross sectional and panel datasets of 156 countries from 1970 to 2015. This study uses three dimensions … impact on health outcomes while in terms of "position" its effect is limited. Findings of the study are robust to different … health performance differences across countries by highlighting the heterogeneity of state capacity dimensions in shaping the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930499