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Agricultural productivity and mortality: evidence from Kagera, Tanzania

Ikegami, Munenobu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

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The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

changes in adult mortality rates. An upsurge of cardiovascular and external cause mortality caused a massive premature loss of … life among working-age men in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. In contrast, cardiovascular mortality has fallen at a … changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about …

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What is the Value of Hazardous Weather Forecasts? Evidence from a Survey of Backcountry Skiers

Alberini, Anna; Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Leiter, Andrea; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

What is the value of hazardous weather warnings? To answer this question, we focus on the avalanche bulletin for Switzerland issued by the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). We take a survey-based, non-market valuation approach to estimating the value of hypothetical...

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Stratified Partial Likelihood Estimation.

Ridder, G.; Tunali, I. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 1997

When multiple durations are generated by a single unit, they may be related in a way that is not fully captured by the regressors. The omitted unit-specific variables might vary over the durations. They might also be correlated with the variables in the regression compenent. We propose an...

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Gradients in Potential Years of Life Lost by Socio-Economic Group in Ireland.

O'Shea, E.; Connolly, S. - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 2000

The objective of this paper is to investigate socio-economic mortality differentials for men aged between 15 and 69 in … Ireland, using years of potential life lost (YPLL) as a measure of premature mortality. …

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'Til Death Do Us Part: Marital Disruption and Mortality.

Lillard, L.A.; Waite, L.J. - Labor and Population Program, RAND - 1993

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Indian Women

Chatterjee, M. - World Bank Group - 1990

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Why is Mortality Higher in Unequal Societies? Interpreting Income Inequality and Mortality in Canada and the United States.

Ross, N.A.; Wolfson, M.C.; Berthelot, J.-M.; Dunn, J.R. - University of British Columbia - Centre for Health … - 1999

thinking about how income dispersion and mortality might be related and suggest that income inequality gas a number of social …

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Missing Women in Indian Districts: an Entitlements Approach.

Agnihotri, S.; Palmer-Jones, R.; Parikh, A. - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 1998

The ratio of women to men in India reveals excess female mortality by comparison with developed countries; this excess … is socially not naturally determined. Juvenile sex ratios combine excess male infant mortality in poor health … environments with excess female child mortality due to discrimination. Variations in sex ratios have been explained in terms of …

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RIDDER, G.; TUNALI, I. - Department of Economics, Cornell University - 1990

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