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Determinants of household drinking water quality in rural Ethiopia

Usman, Muhammed A.; Gerber, Nikolaus; Pangaribowo, … - 2016

Safe and adequate water supply is a vital element to preserve human health; however, access to clean water is limited … consumption of unsafe water poses a great public health risk. This study seeks to identify determinants of microbial contamination …

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Social norms and teenage smoking : the dark side of gender equality

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - 2016

potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show …-equal social norms may come at an extra cost to women's health, as they increasingly engage in risky behaviors (beyond smoking …

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Arsenic contamination of drinking water and mental health

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Krause, Anabelle; Zimmermann, … - 2016

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an … health. To account for potential endogeneity of water source, we take advantage of the quasi-randomness of arsenic … find that suffering from an arsenicosis symptom is strongly negatively related to mental health, even more so than from …

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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale

López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016

This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child care centers in Ecuador. We first assess the...

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Is mandatory nonfinancial performance measurement beneficial?

Gallani, Susanna; Kajiwara, Takehisa; Krishnan, Ranjani - 2015

We examine the effect of mandated measurement and peer disclosure of new information on the persistence of performance improvements in a setting without performance incentives. Value of information (VOI) theory posits that information can improve the accuracy of posterior beliefs and thereby...

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An analysis of the cost of disability across Europe using the standard of living approach

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Braña Piño, Francisco Javier - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 3, pp. 281-306

This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European countries. In order to do so, we exploit the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, its special module on housing conditions for 2007 and 2012 and employ two...

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Will increased wages reduce shortage of nurses? : a panel data analysis of nurses' labour supply

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Baltagi, Badi H.; Holmås, Tor Helge - 2002

Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labour supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1998 to estimate...

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Out-migration and attrition of physicians and dentists before and after EU accession (2003 and 2011) : the case of Hungary

Varga, Júlia - 2016

health system. Nevertheless, outward migration plays an important and growing role in the phenomenon. …

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Analysis of the organizational eco-systemic change in a cooperative society of fishing production

Vargas-Hernández, José G.; Salazar Echeagaray, … - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2016)

This work aims to analyze the organizational change that has taken the Cooperative Society of Fishing Production "The Patole", S.C. of R.L. de C.V. It is assumed that as a result of having implemented systems theory, it has improved its organizational development and thus fulfillment of its...

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Long-run consequences of exposure to natural disasters

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Wray, Anthony - 2016

We utilize the individual-level World War I Draft Registration Cards matched to late-nineteenth century hurricane paths and the 1940 U.S. Census to explore whether fetal and early childhood exposure to stress caused by hurricanes affects human capital development and labor market outcomes in...

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