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Mishra, Vivek - 2019

Policy refers to a broad guideline framed by the government for some desired changes in a state. Policy entrepreneurs are persons who strive to introduce desired changes in the policies and they work with various bodies to get the policies implemented. Policy entrepreneurship on the other hand...

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A Study on Time, Cost & Challenges to Access Social Protection Schemes in Rural Rajasthan

Sharma, Sanjay - 2019

Government of Rajasthan spent 42% of state budget on social sector. Majority of this amount is use to provide social security safety net to the poor and poorest families living in outreach areas of the state through various social protection schemes. While increase in number of social protection...

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Income, Health, and Suicide : Evidence from Individual Panel Data in Korea

Lee, Chulhee - 2017

Limited evidence regarding the effects of individual income and health on suicide was presented. We investigated how individual economic status and health conditions (chronic diseases and disabilities) affect the probability of suicidal death through an analysis of micro panel data constructed...

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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence

Constant, Amelie F. - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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Health and Skill Formation in Early Childhood

Biroli, Pietro - 2016

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and cognitive skills, as well as the role of parental...

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Birth Order, Parental Health Investment, and Health in Childhood

Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2019

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find significant birth order effects on health at birth and in primary school. These effects are...

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Health Responses to a Wealth Shock : Evidence from a Swedish Tax Reform

Erixson, Oscar - 2014

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax....

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Wealth, Health, and Child Development : Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Cesarini, David - 2015

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors – such as the...

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Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Among Native Americans : A Proposed Community- Based Intervention

Mangum, Brian P. - 2018

Foetal alcohol spectrum syndrome (FAS) is characterized by craniofacial dysmorphology, growth deficiencies, and central … lack of social attainment. FAS is entirely preventable by not consuming alcohol during pregnancy. Despite this, FAS remains … community health intervention for reducing alcohol consumption by pregnant women through community-based and healthcare provider …

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Private Schooling after a Year of COVID-19 : How the Private Sector Has Fared and How to Keep It Healthy

McCluskey, Neal - 2021

As COVID-19 struck the United States in March 2020, sending the nation into lockdown, worry about the fate of private schools was high. These schools, which only survive if people can pay for them, seemed to face deep trouble. Many private schools have thin financial margins even in good...

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