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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are … changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. …
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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are … changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. Statistical estimation of wage functions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080486
reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are … changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087237
afford to stay home to minimize virus exposure. Our results show that poor agents bear most of the epidemic's health costs …, even when less lethal, health and economic outcomes are worse. Public policies such as testing, quarantining, and lockdowns …
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may have been increased compared to before the lockdowns; but sufficiently large losses of work time and income reverse … reduced, reductions that are made more severe by income and work losses. …
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effects of air pollution on health and mortality. There is also some evidence that air pollution may have negative non-health … also suggests that effects on both health and non-health dimensions may be heterogeneous in a number of dimensions, most …
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productivity is tied to the value of interactions, and under wage negotiations.Despite relatively schematic, our modelling … critically dependent on a mix of health and wealth factors such as age, work interactions, workers power, and productivity of …
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Examination of estimates of the income elasticity of the value of a statistical life based on international stated … regression estimates indicate that the income elasticity is about 0.55 for more affluent counties and 1.0 for lower income … nations, i.e., those countries that have estimates of the value of a statistical life below $2 million or per capita income …
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Occupational Injuries data, coupled with adjustments for differences in income between the United States and the country of … interest. This approach requires estimation of two critical inputs: a base U.S. VSL and the income elasticity of the VSL ….6 million. Based on a sample of 953 VSL estimates from 68 labor market studies of the VSL, we estimate the income elasticity of …
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This article examines the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps and the distribution of both paid and unpaid work in …. The indigenous population also suffers from discrimination, but the wage gap is mainly explained by the difference in … endowments, highlighting their limited access to education and their concentration in rural areas. The wage quantile …
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