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Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion …, using changing distance as an instrument. Improving access to delivering in a city with a NICU decreases 0-6-day mortality …
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Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting prevalence and for which we have access to...
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and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …
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and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …
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differences in pro-cyclicality across subsamples that are expected to be affected differently by the business cycle. Mortality is … most pro-cyclical for young men (18-24), but there are also some indications of more pro-cyclical mortality for subgroups …, such as the disabled, who are already dependent on the health-care system. Furthermore, the data allow us to look at pro …
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This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of...
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with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …
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