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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Malawi's Progress on Maternal and Child Health
Cortez, Rafael; Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Malawi has made great progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH). Under-five mortality declined from 244 to 71 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2012, and maternal mortality declined from 1,100 to 510 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births between 1990 and 2013. This note...
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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Egypt's Progress on Maternal and Child Health
Sarker, Intissar; Saadat, Seemeen; Cortez, Rafael; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Egypt is a lower-middle-income country with a GNI per capita (PPP) of US$ 5,654 in 2012. Since the Arab Spring, Egypt?s economic growth has slowed to 0.6 percent in 2012. Half of Egypt?s 82.54 million people live in rural areas. Poverty is concentrated in Upper Egypt (the southern region). As of...
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Does disability explain state-level differences in the quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital inpatient care?
Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2007
. Research has shown that the presence of a disability can crowd out treatment for medical conditions not necessarily related to … the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … paper uses quality of care data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine whether disability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292342
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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution
Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293175
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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution
Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294867
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Is The Captain of the Men of Death Still At Play? Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure during Sulfa Drug Revolution in America
Bhalotra, Sonia; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011
disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention pneumonia mortality rates … exception of cognitive disabilities for men and, in some specifications, work disability for men and family income, estimates …
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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307390
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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
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Does Raising the Retirement Age increase Employment of Older Workers?
Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310756
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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution
Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310769