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We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …
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We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582222
Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has …
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Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally …
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Social differentials in the survival from 12 common types of cancer were assessed by estimating a recently developed mixed additive-multiplicative hazard model on the basis of individual register and census data for the whole Norwegian population. The excess all-cause mortality among cancer...
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Dynamic modeling of demand for goods whose cumulated stocks enter an intertemporal utility function as latent variables, is discussed. The issues include: how represent addiction, how handle unobserved expectations and changing plans, how deal with 'dynamic inconsistency'? Arguments are put...
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Suicides represent an encompassing measure of psychological wellbeing, emotional stability as well as life satisfaction, and they have been recently identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a major global health concern. The G20 countries represent the powerhouse of global economic...
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In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286367
Dynamic modeling of demand for goods whose cumulated stocks enter an intertemporal utility function as latent variables, is discussed. The issues include: how represent addiction, how handle unobserved expectations and changing plans, how deal with `dynamic inconsistency'? Arguments are put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909570
In many countries the demand for health care services is of increasing importance. Especially in the industrialized world with a changing demographic structure social insurances and politics face real challenges. Reliable predictors of those demand functions will therefore become invaluable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380653