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This study contributes to the health literature by decomposing health outcomes into three dimensions that are physical … health, mental health and well-being of individuals. Where physical health is measured using life expectancy, infant … mortality and self-rated health indicators while mental health is measured using stress index and addition of smoking in both …
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Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of … illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance …
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Social, or 'generalized', trust refers to beliefs that people hold about how other people in society will in general act towards them. Can people in general be trusted? Or must one be careful in dealing with people? Research on the antecedents of social trust has typically relied on...
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By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
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We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....
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