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We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
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. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … health. …
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We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401704
. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943904
We address the efficiency in education and health sectors for a sample of OECD countries by applying two alternative …
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This article focuses on common and different attributes of education and health from economic and social perspective …. Education and health are not usually analyzed together so this could be considered to be an innovative approach. Article … contains knowledge which reflects empirically known dependencies in the area of education and health determinants and …
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Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the …
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This paper examines the impact of post-neonatal childhood health on adult educational attainment using evidence from … of the laws across states to identify both the short-run impacts on child health and long-term effects on educational …
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In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …
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