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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
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 … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500475
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Health, social policy, and inclusive growth in MENA
Alami, Randa - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2014
This paper takes stock of the current status of health sectors in MENA. From the narrow perspective of national aggregate indicators, as with most middle income countries, the region has seen significant achievements. Yet, health sectors face systemic challenges, and suffer from significant and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765570
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Climate Changes Affect Human Capital
Caruso, Germán; de Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290284
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Climate changes affect human capital
Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023
Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014251487
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Income Inequality and Poverty in Colombia - Part 2. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers
Joumard, Isabelle; Vélez, Juliana Londoño - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
small and dominated by non-redistributive schemes such as contributory pensions. Education coverage has increased steadily … de l'éducation et l'équité d'accès, en particulier pour l'université, restent des défis importants. De même pour la santé …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276998
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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653367
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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality
Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021
The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882641
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Access to water and COVID-19: A regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru
Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022
This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518194
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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality
Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021 - This version: September 2021
The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661996
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Legal status and deprivation in India's urban slums : an analysis of two decades of national sample survey data
Nolan, Laura B.; Bloom, David E.; Subbaraman, Ramnath - 2017
In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631522