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The study examines the relationship among health capacity, female learning and infant transience in Sub-Saharan African … secondary school (proxy female literacy), health expenditure (proxy health capacity) and infant mortality rate (infant … transience) which is obtained from World Bank database, 2015. The data is analyzed using Dynamic Panel System-Generalized Methods …
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the determinants of life expectancy as proxy for health status of the OECD … countries' population. A production function of health is used to explain expectancy life at birth for total and ageing … population and according to gender. Socio-economic factors, health resources and lifestyles are defined as the main determinants …
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We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the … relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for …
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measures. -- Health measures ; health inequality ; SF12 ; grip strength ; German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) …Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …
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Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … panel data from the European Community Household Panel surveys. We use pooled interval regressions and inequality …
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through an analysis of micro panel data constructed by the Korean National Health Insurance. The data looked into a sample of …Limited evidence regarding the effects of individual income and health on suicide was presented. We investigated how … individual economic status and health conditions (chronic diseases and disabilities) affect the probability of suicidal death …
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We use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) to study the … relationship between marriage and health for working-age (20 to 64) individuals. In both data sets married agents are healthier … than unmarried ones, and the health gap between married and unmarried agents widens by age. After controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043680
Despite being widely used in health economics, dynamic models of health and healthcare typically assume that the … persistence is essential for the design and evaluation of health interventions because persistence determines the dynamics and … health outcomes. Using simple regression methods that do not place any restriction on the distribution of the heterogeneity …
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Using representative survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for 2006, we show that the magnitude … of such health inequality measures as the concentration index (CI) depends crucially on the underlying health measure …. The highest degree of inequality is found when dichotomized subjective health measures like health satisfaction or self …
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