to education and rising truancy; youth lifestyle and health including an increase in drug abuse and the occurrence of …; health and health service deterioration; changes in family formation including rising family-breakdown rates; falling access …

to education and rising truancy; youth lifestyle and health including an increase in drug abuse and the occurrence of …; health and health service deterioration; changes in family formation including rising family-breakdown rates; falling access …

Education is effectively used as a discontinuous variable in studies estimating the rates of return by level of … education. We find that the normal procedure used for estimating the rate of return to broad aggregates such as secondary and …, as expected, that broad aggregations that ignore sub-levels of education result in a loss of important insights about the …

Climate change will have a wide range of implications to human health. These include thermal-related morbidity and …, water-borne (e.g. diarrhea, cholera, typhoid) and vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria, dengue). Much of the health risk … posed by climate change is preventable or curable through the scale-up of existing health programmes and interventions …

background, language, educational and employment status of parents, housing conditions, school and labour market participation …