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Education, Health and Health-Related Behaviors : Evidence from Higher Education Expansion

Bratti, Massimiliano; Cottini, Elena; Ghinetti, Paolo - 2022

This study throws light on the potential non-linear effects of education on individual health and health …-related behaviors, finding a strong role for higher education. Using an instrumental variables (IVs) strategy, which leverages changes … in within-province between-municipality college proximity across birth cohorts, we demonstrate that higher education …

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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children

Cawley, John H. - 2012

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …

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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings : Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2016

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...

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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models : Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2011

We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the Family Health Group (FHG) among primary care physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of...

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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare

Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo A.; … - 2023

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...

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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - 2012

We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...

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Increasing Rural Health Clinic Utilization with SMS Updates : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Uganda

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2016

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS updates regarding confirmed attendance of clinic staff and activities to randomly selected cell phone-owning households in the local community. A difference-in-difference...

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The Impact of Immigrants on Public Finances : A Forecast Analysis for Denmark

Hansen, Marianne - 2015

All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly challenging case, namely that of Denmark, which has extensive tax-financed welfare programmes...

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Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment : Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Fighting Poverty : Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...

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