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education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education … housing and enhance health and education outcomes for disadvantaged groups. These reforms go in the right direction and, in …
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this empirical evidence, the view that the poor are less healthy in terms of excess accumulation of fat...
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This paper studies systematic reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health in India using World Health Survey (WHS …)-SAGE survey that has subjective assessments on own health and hypothetical vignettes as well as objective measures like measured … anthropometrics and performance tests on a range of health domains. The study implicitly tests and validates the assumption of …
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This chapter examines education and labor market outcomes for cohorts with early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 … individuals from areas with negative education and labor market prospects in the cohorts with early-life famine exposure. The …
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disadvantaged members of the society. The main objectives of the paper are to describe to what extent the education and healthcare …
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heterogeneity into account when assessing the impact of substance use on education. …
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By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China … Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study), we assess the long-term effects of childhood vaccination on cognitive and …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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serious health problems for the offspring and constitutes an economic problem with its associated medical costs and the impact … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
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