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Assessing the benefits of medical innovation—its impact on health outcomes—is as important as assessing the costs—its impact on health expenditure. Most formal studies have focused on the expenditure impacts of medical technology, partly because costs are more easily identified and...
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The link between the mortality and epidemiological transitions is used to identify the effect of the former on the … fertility transition: a mortality transition that is not accompanied by improving morbidity causes slower demographic and … noninfectious-disease-related adult mortality. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as it did in western Europe, labor …
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We investigate the empirical relationship between child mortality and fertility across 46 low and middle income … countries. Specifically, we model the effect of mortality expectations and interdependent fertility preferences on fertility …. The direct marginal effect of mortality expectations on fertility is larger than zero but less than unity. This implies …
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of fertility and mortality changes in a common framework, we incorporate realistic demographic features into a continuous … countries (such as the USA), we find that a fertility increase and a mortality decline, while both causing a rise in the … population growth rate, have opposite effects on capital accumulation. We also consider simultaneous fertility and mortality …
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Growth models with endogenous mortality assume generally that life expectancy is increasing with output per capita and … between consumption and mortality, implying that the monotonicity of that relation is local but not global. This paper …
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not have any effect on health outcomes for children and young adults, but appears to have increased mortality among …
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We explore the effects of income and, additionally education on the income, self-reported health and survival of men aged sixty-five and over in Great Britain . By so doing, we identify benefits of education which are omitted in the conventional analysis with its focus on labour income excluding...
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expectancy of Russia¡¯s population and the changes in the structure of mortality by causes. …
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decreased mortality. …
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and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990–1999, as … job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality during a follow-up period of 12 years were estimated by … propensity score weighting methods. An excess risk of both alcohol-related hospitalization and mortality was found among both …
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