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Volterra, Laura (contributor); Boualam, Marc (contributor); … - Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Umwelt; … - 2002

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Environment and health

Pärt, Peter - 2006

environment and health problems. The issue of environment and health is characterised by multi-causality with different strengths … of association. This means that the links between exposures and their health consequences depend on the environmental …

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A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'

Rendon, Silvio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

I discuss the application of capture-recapture methods to estimating the total number of deaths in armed conflicts, and propose an alternative method based on a trivariate discrete choice model. Data come from the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' (TRC) of Peru, around 25000 deaths,...

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Governing the Family Through Education: A Genealogy on the Home/School Relation.

Kainz, Kirsten; Aikens, Nikki L. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2007

The authors examine a century of rhetoric on the home/school relation and associated parent involvement. The review investigates how current ideas about this relationship and parent involvement might inhibit the realization of justice, equity, and excellence in education.

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Health and Work of the Elderly Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work

Lindeboom, Maarten; Kerkhofs, Marcel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly workers, taking the various … ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly into account. For this, two issues are of relevance. Self …-assessed health measures are usually at hand in empirical analyses and research indicates that these may be endogenous, state …

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Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health

Halliday, Timothy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved … individual characteristics that trace back to early adulthood and before can have far reaching effects on health. …

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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty

Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822444

Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD

Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

physical health. …

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822711

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