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Assessing the Effect of Mother's Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi

Konseiga, Adama - 2010

Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi's slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...

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Modeling Heaped Duration Data : An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2016

In 2005, the Indian Government launched a conditional cash-incentive program to encourage institutional delivery. This paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention...

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Understanding the Mechanisms Linking College Education with Longevity

Hong, Kai - 2020

We go beyond estimating the effect of college attainment on longevity by uncovering the mechanisms behind this effect … longevity is well explained by observed mechanisms. Furthermore, we find that for women, the positive effect of education on … longevity has been historically masked by the negative effect of education on marriage. An adjustment for the relationship …

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Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality : A Structural Approach

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2016

Education is negatively associated with mortality for most major causes of death. The literature ignores that cause-specific hazard rates are interdependent and that education and mortality both depend on cognitive ability. We analyze the education-mortality gradient at ages 18-63 using Swedish...

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Modelling Heaped Duration Data : An Application to Neonatal Mortality

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2014

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Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases for males

Bijwaard, Govert - 2021

High educated individuals are less frequently admitted to hospital for cardiovascular diseases and live longer than the lower educated. We address whether the educational gradient in the mortality rate can be explained by the educational difference in the timing of CVD hospitalisation. We...

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Effects of Air Temperature on COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate

Sączewska-Piotrowska, Anna; Piotrowski, Damian - 2021

The aim of this study was to assess the case fatality rate (CFR) of COVID-19 by performing a meta-analysis according to the air temperature and to determine if the temperature modifies the pandemic duration to the peak day for CFR of the COVID-19. A novel coronavirus spread began in December...

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Spatial disparities in hospital performance

Gobillon, Laurent; Milcent, Carine - 2012

Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect...

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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gupta, Sumedha - 2011

ages. -- death ; longevity ; recession ; life expectancy ; lifetimes ; marital status ; timing of events ; selectivity …

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Cartels’ Birth and Death Dynamics : Empirical Evidence

Marvão, Catarina M. P.; Le Coq, Chloe; Forsbacka … - 2022

cartels registered between 1947 and 1993. We explore the gradual tightening of Swedish competition law to study cartel … register’s efficiency.We find that the various competition laws had an overall deterrent effect, but new industries became …

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