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deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …
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Strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens is by many people viewed … as critical for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however … communities began to more extensively monitor the provider, both the quality and quantity of health service provision improved …
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We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of the population in Australia, Canada, France, Germany,...
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In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of …-effects estimators to our ordinal health measures. Whilst the exogeneity of reunification allows us to establish the causality between … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity …
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We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job … loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss … as job displacements due to plant closure are unlikely caused by workers' health status, but potentially have important …
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We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …
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malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …
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intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular …
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comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health products in … Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either for free or …
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