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Using results from two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Canada and the U.S., we explore the effect of a latency period on willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality risk using both structural and reduced form approaches. We find that delaying the time at which the risk reduction...
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of imputing lower values for persons with a compromised health status. We also find that income is positively and …
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health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
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Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by …. Although there are no definitive methods for distinguishing between human capital and genetic variation in health outcomes …
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Human development, reflected in the status of people's levels of health and education, affects future growth and, in …-sharing arrangements across Argentina's provinces over time (1970-94). The study regresses two indicators of health and educational status …
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Estimates are reported of the consequences of health on participation in the labor force of elderly men and women in … Taiwan from 1989 to 1996. Three survey indicators of individual health are examined, and two are estimated by instrumental … variables (IV), using as instruments parent longevity, birthplace, and childhood conditions. IV estimates of health's effect on …
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Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
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This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...
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reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …
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