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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health
Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004
the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413014
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A STUDY ABOUT POVERTY, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEPRIVATION IN INDIA
sivakumarmarimuthu; sarvalingam - EconWPA - 2004
This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413022
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Schooling, cognitive ability, and health
Auld, M. Christopher; Sidhu, Nirmal - EconWPA - 2004
the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413025
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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom
Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076935
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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561544
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Review of National Competition Policy Reforms
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
education and training are also needed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118883
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Student Responses to Merit Retention Rules
Cornwell, Christopher M.; Lee, Kyung Hee; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134618
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International pharmaceutical price differences
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001
The study compares manufacturer prices in Australia and seven other countries for 150 pharmaceuticals listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), as at 30 June 2000. The comprehensive study found that prices in the USA are between 80 to 160 per cent higher than in Australia, and prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407754
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Deutsche Finanzpolitik zwischen Konsolidierung und Wachstum
Heise, Arne - EconWPA - 2004
Consolidation seems to be the need of the present. Although this statement ought to refer to the debt situation of public finance, all too often it is the deficit ratio as an instrument variable which is taken as the target of consolidation ('zero-defict'). Recent studies try to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408448
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CANADIAN AND US HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE: ELEMENTS OF CONVERGENCE
Globerman, Steven; Hodges, Luther H.; Vining, Aidan - EconWPA - 2004
International comparisons of the organization and performance of health care sectors are increasingly informing policy makers about potential policies relating to the cost of, and access to, health care. Perhaps nowhere have such comparisons featured as prominently as in North America. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412475