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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality

Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...

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Psychische Gesundheit: Abstand zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland wird kleiner

Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Graeber, Daniel; Stacherl, Barbara - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 40, pp. 546-552

Psychische Gesundheit gewinnt in der öffentlichen Diskussion zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Im Vergleich zur körper lichen Gesundheit ist sie aber weiterhin weniger prominent. Wie steht es also um die psychische Gesundheit in Deutsch land? Der Wochenbericht zeigt, dass sich die durchschnittli...

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Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …

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Access to water and COVID-19: A regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru

Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022

This paper presents the results of a quasi-experimental study using information collected through a survey conducted in peri-urban areas of Metropolitan Lima between October and November 2021. The survey was applied to households residing close to and on both sides of the geographic boundary of...

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Acceso al agua y COVID-19: Un estudio de regresión discontinua para áreas periurbanas de Lima Metropolitana, Perú

Gómez-Lobo, Andrés; Gutiérrez, Mauro; Huamaní, Sandro; … - 2022

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Economic reasoning on the correlation between life expectancy and economic development: Exploring alternative routes

Wittmann, Nadine - 2014

Regarding the connection between economic development and public health, the statistically evident correlation between a country's gross domestic product and life expectancy is widely discussed. An important aspect that keeps resurfacing in discussions on why the relationship between the latter...

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Endowments and investments within the household: Evidence from iodine supplementation in Tanzania

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - 2011

Standard theories of resource allocation within the household posit that parents' investments in their children reflect a combination of children's endowments and parents' preferences for child quality. We study how changes in children's cognitive endowments affect the distribution of parental...

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Urbanization and inequality in hypertension diagnosis and medication in Indonesia

Helble, Matthias; Aizawa, Toshiaki - 2016

irrespective of their socioeconomic status. Finally, decomposition analysis shows that the inequality in education, access to …

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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia

Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016

Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...

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Income inequality and intimate partner violence against women : evidence from India

Rashada, Ahmed Shoukry; Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy - 2016

, we find education level, husband’s employment status, living in rural areas, being from non-scheduled caste, and the …

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