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This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...
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This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...
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early effects address four causes of mortality and nine categories of morbidity. The models for early effects are based upon … analysis of both morbidity and mortality. The new models for genetic effects allow prediction of genetic risks in each of the …
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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … arrived at the same conclusion. Within countries, just as at the cross-national level, child mortality has been found to be … the minority are studies of socioeconomic determinants of child mortality which have examined the association between …
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censuses and demographic surveys particularly the World Fertility Survey to ascertain trends in fertility and mortality. The ….e. breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence; and a reduction in the level of sterility. As far as trends in mortality are concerned …, the estimates posit a decline in both infant and child mortality in Kenya, Benin and Ivory Coast; infant mortality in …
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The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality … mother, namely, the increased likelihood of smoking and/or drinking and/or less prenatal care by Black women during pregnancy …
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explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …
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two operations but strong evidence of delayed mortality from turbine passage. After tagging with a passive integrated … operations. Based on these differences, we estimated that delayed mortality comprised from 46% to 70% of total estimated … mortality. We reviewed the literature and concluded that delayed mortality was caused by sublethal impacts to fish sensory …
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We developed a method to estimate mortality rates of adult fish caused by entrainment through the propellers of … statistical properties of the entrainment mortality rate estimators using Monte Carlo simulation, which demonstrated that a design … estimated the entrainment mortality rates of adult fishes in Pool 26 of the Mississippi River and the Alton Pool of the Illinois …
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A 3-year study was conducted to determine mortality rates for downstream migrant salmonids passing through spillways or … chinook were also tested in 1957. In all experiments the turbine was the major source of mortality. For each exit, no … significant difference was found between mortalities at McNary Dam and Big Cliff Dam on fingerling chinook or between mortality …
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