Narrow search
Showing 91 - 100 of 274,309
Cover Image
A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - RAND - 2010
, living conditions and curative care are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Their model predicts … a widening and possibly a subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490278
Cover Image
A Contribution to Health Capital Theory
Galama, Titus J. - RAND - 2011
This paper presents a theory of the demand for health, health investment and longevity, building on the human capital framework for health and addressing limitations of existing models. It predicts a negative correlation between health investment and health, that the health of wealthy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833446
Cover Image
A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a … subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484063
Cover Image
A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a … subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257432
Cover Image
Framing the predicted impacts of COVID-19 prophylactic measures in terms of lives saved rather than deaths is more effective for older people
Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295236
Cover Image
Are girls the fairer sex in India? Revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta - 2011
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional … of gender bias in the primary school age group (age 5-9); however, pro-male bias in educational expenditure is observed … in many Indian states in the age group 10-14. In contrast, gender discrimination in the secondary school age group 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278425
Cover Image
The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India
Nordman, Christophe; Sharma, Smriti - 2016
India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … groups; and (iv) a pro-male bias exists in educational spending for all age groups, with some differentiation by location and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532387
Cover Image
Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad - 2021
, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491314
Cover Image
The Power of Lakshmi: Monetary Incentives for Raising a Girl
Biswas, Nabaneeta; Cornwell, Christopher; Zimmermann, … - 2021
Worldwide, 1.6 million girls are "missing" at birth every year. One policy tool to improve the sex ratio is a conditional cash transfer that pays parents to invest in daughters, but existing evidence on their effectiveness is sparse. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587303
Cover Image
The power to choose : gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India
Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2016
India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … groups; and (iv) a pro-male bias exists in educational spending for all age groups, with some differentiation by location and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471999