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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is on the effect of religion on the reported … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …
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several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …, but not all, of the positive association between openness and health may result from more open economies receiving more …
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not just public health and the economy but also societies. We focus on one pillar of society - trust - and explore how … concerns about personal health or the health of loved ones, but rather by increased levels of worry and stress. Our findings … suggest that the effects of the pandemic go well beyond immediate health concerns, leading to important normative changes that …
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Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...
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health has linked global environmental change to increased incidence of epidemics of infectious disease, there's relatively …
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This paper explores how school-age exposure to storms impacts the education and primary activity status of young adults … the probability of accruing educational delays, a 2 percentage point decline in post-secondary education achievement, and … degraded school infrastructure and declining household income contribute to these findings. …
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itself is correlated with these declines. We have long known from microeconomic data that income is not a very good predictor … of children's health status. These results confirm that in a growth regression context. They also suggest that the …
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581726
socioeconomic wellbeing of smallholder farmers in developing countries but could also help to reduce negative health and … fertilizer and pesticide use, as well as on human health and environmental toxicity. Fairtrade increases chemical input … quantities and aggregated levels of toxicity. Nevertheless, Fairtrade reduces the incidence of pesticide-related acute health …
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