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Impacts of iPad attributes, Lifestyles and media dependency on adoption of iPad and intensity of iPad usage in Mainland China
Kevin, Li Xinpeng - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
predictive power of iPad attributes, lifestyles, media dependency, and demographics on adoption of iPad, iPad usage patterns and … of iPad usage. Regarding lifestyles, strivers were found to be associated with higher likelihood of buying iPad …
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Bhutan: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has been rapid from about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in 2012. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important determinants of reproductive health. Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213937
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Inequity in the Face of Death
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Schokkaert, Erik; Ourti, Tom Van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
dataset for the Netherlands (1998-2007), linking informationabout mortality, health events and lifestyles. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256310
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Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women's rarity in large accounting firms. Evidence from the Big Four France
Lupu, Ioana - HAL - 2011
Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in public accounting firms remain proportionally fewer in number in the highest levels of the hierarchy than men. This paper aims to explore the mechanisms fostering women's rarity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323509
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The Economic Costs of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Pacific Islands
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
There is increasing recognition that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an important international and development issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are an important health challenge in the Pacific. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770370
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Mediating role of education and lifestyles in the relationship betwee early-life conditions and health: evidence from the 1958 British cohort
Tubeuf, Tubeuf; Jusot, Florence; Bricard, Damien - Academic Unit of Health Economics, Leeds Institute of … - 2011
The paper focuses on the long-term effects of early-life conditions with comparison to lifestyles and current … of education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and later health. Direct and indirect … effects of early-life conditions on adult health are explored using auxiliary linear regressions of education and lifestyles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010705970
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Mediating role of education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and health : evidence from the 1958 British cohort
Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence; Bricard, Damien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
The paper focuses on the long-term effects of early-life conditions with comparison to lifestyles and educational … education and lifestyles in the relationship between early-life conditions and later health. Direct and indirect effects of … early-life conditions on adult health are explored using auxiliary linear regressions of education and lifestyles and panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708131
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Construction des inégalités des chances en santé à travers les modes de vie
Bricard, Damien - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
measure of the respective contribution of early-life conditions, education and lifestyles to health inequality ; (ii) the … both directly and indirectly through lifestyles. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074667
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The effects of tobacco taxes on health : an analysis of the effects by income quintile and gender in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine
Denisova, Irina; Kuznetsova, Polina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco-related diseases in Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, and to assess the distributional health impact of an increase in tobacco taxation in these three countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100429
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Health, Lifestyle and Growth
COPPOLA, Gianluigi - Centro di Economia del Lavoro e di Politica Economica … - 2010
In this paper I will try to explain why lifestyle may have a positive impact on economic growth. First of all, I consider health affecting consumer’s utility and then define a Health Production Function where health is the output and consumer good the input. In this approach a parameter named...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799482