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The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in … terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human …
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. The spread of mass primary education and the health transitions were its main drivers. The gap between the West and the …
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in … terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861807
The pessimistic flavour of the Human Development Reports appears to be in contradiction with their own numbers as developing countries fare comparatively better in human development than in per capita GDP terms. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing a new, ‘improved’ human...
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–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in … terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010710613
The pessimistic flavour of the Human Development Reports appears to be in contradiction with their own numbers as developing countries fare comparatively better in human development than in per capita GDP terms. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing a new, ‘improved’ human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008607506
–largely explained by education- has occurred since 1913 but fading away after 1970, when the Rest fell behind the OECD in … terms of longevity. As the health transition was achieved in the Rest, the contribution of life expectancy to human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084034
improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty …
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
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