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One of the basic needs of the people is good health that is central to human happiness and well-being. The aim of the … study was to investigate the health status of older adults (persons aged 50 years or higher) from Poland and to identify the … factors affecting their health among sociodemographic and economic characteristics. The source of information used in the …
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Mortality risk due to water pollution is one of serious problems especially for Asian developing countries. The timing … survey data sets in Laos and Vietnam to ask citizens' WTP for mortality risk reduction, we found relative robust …
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In this paper, I propose a life cycle model of painkiller consumption that combines the theory of health deficit …
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detrimental behavioral responses. We explore this idea in the context of endogenous health and aging. We integrate physiological … state of health affects health spending, life expectancy, and the value of life. In counterfactual computational experiments … lifetime utility, health investments, and longevity. We then use the model to contribute to the literature on information …
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D'Albis and Boubtane provide empirical evidence on the macroeconomic and fiscal consequences of international migration for OECD countries. The authors use a panel of 19 countries over the period 1980-2015 to study the effects of increases in the net migration rate on per capita GDP and on both...
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In this paper, we aim at re-assessing the undisputed positive relationship between innovation and economic growth by questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We rather propose that these linkages are strongly...
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