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providing additional information on the health benefits of the products. Ready-to-eat and juice products were preferred to whole …
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cost Americans hundreds in billions of dollars. High cholesterol levels, which are closely related to diet habits, are a major contributor to CVD. In this paper we study whether changes in food prices are related to cholesterol levels and whether taxes or subsidies...
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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
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Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult workforce. The variation in the local area level of … causal impact on poor health, labour force participation, hours worked and wages. There appears to be a significant positive … association between local area-level radiation dosage and perception of poor health, though much weaker associations between local …
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We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …
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variability therefore uncovers a mechanism of how perceptions of unfairness can adversely affect cardiovascular health. We further … test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set. Complementary to our … experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in particular cardiovascular …
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This study estimates the impact of the 2010 health care reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act/Health … Care and Education Reconciliation Act) on Virginia’s economy. Health care reform is a complex and multifaceted law that was … enacted with the joint goals of improving health insurance coverage for U.S. residents, decreasing the costs of health care …
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With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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-perceived health. …
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