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benefits in enabling our current living standards, the use of plastic has proven to cause significant health and environmental … bring their health and environmental awareness with them to the dinner table. A co-creative approach to addressing the …
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the ways in which health affects a consumer’s utility, and I then define a Health Production Function for which health is … first result is that an increase in a consumer’s personal income may have a positive or a negative effect on health. That is …, health may be a normal or an inferior good, depending on the Lifestyle Return to Scale value. According to this result, I …
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This paper sets out to detect the costs of joblessness in Italy and Spain, two countries that show major differences in labour market structure and in their reaction to the crisis. We describe the different unemployment insurance systems in the two countries and how the crisis has hit the two...
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and health outcomes. We combine three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of … an instrument for the effect of education on health. Using instrumental variables Probit models (IV-Probit), we find … causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health for a limited number of health markers. We find lower …
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The smallpox epidemic of 1781–82 in the Hudson Bay region is said to have devastated the native population, causing mortality of at least 50%. We reassess this claim using a four-pronged approach. First, we total smallpox deaths reported by two fur trading posts that were in the midst of the...
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of stratification used by states in their analyses, such as beneficiary, provider, or health plan, and the frequency with …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption … liberalization play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter? Despite the acute concern … of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject matter empirically void …
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Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health …-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …
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