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The Effect of Education on Health : Evidence from the 1997 Compulsory Schooling Reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …

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Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Soner Baskaya, Yusuf - 2022

This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual level data from the … spatial wage curve relation holds both for formal and informal workers in Turkey for a variety of specifications. In general …

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The Turkish Wage Curve : Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2011

finding is that the wages of females in Turkey are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates than their male …

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How Different are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2012

This paper presents wage curves for formal and informal workers using a rich individual level data for Turkey over the … Turkey, less attention has focused on how this relationship differs for informal versus formal employment. This is of utmost … Household Labor Force Survey observed over 26 NUTS-2 regions, we find that real hourly wages of informal workers in Turkey are …

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Spurring Economic Growth through Human Development : Research Results and Guidance for Policymakers

Bloom, David E. - 2020

Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty...

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Health and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E. - 2018

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling causality between health and economic growth is empirically...

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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E. - 2018

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...

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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea

Bloom, David E. - 2017

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...

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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons

Bloom, David E. - 2013

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic growth, which focuses on the negative effects of NCDs on labor supply and capital accumulation. We...

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