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: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of …
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I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … health. I explore some mechanisms through which education may affect health, but education does not seem to promote healthy … lifestyles, increase the use of modern healthcare services, or improve access to health insurance; if anything, education …
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.e. income, happiness, job and life satisfaction, health status. Nevertheless, to date few systematic efforts have been made to … satisfaction and health status. The tentative explanations of my empirical findings are: (a) people experience large mismatches in … aspirations/expectations early in adult life; (d) the latter mismatches depend on education and are largely confined to the labour …
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working conditions. Hence, the investigation here is to ascertain whether there is a happiness premium to education over and …
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basic services would help in improving outcomes in the south, with a focus on health and education. Finally, we discuss the … existing evidence on the impact that programs such as the Education, Health, and Nutrition Program (Programa de Educación …
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This paper explores the causal pathway by which poor fetal health translates into reducing educational attainment and … impairment, both subtypes exhibit similar impairment to physical health. And finally, there is evidence that the causes and … differentiating between these subtypes may offer new opportunities to identify the underlying casual relationships between health and …
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Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education … addition, they find that more education is associated with better health behaviors: Better-educated individuals smoke less …In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the …
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stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes … district and quarter of birth, and their health and labour market outcomes observed at fifty and sixty years old. Differences …
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that inequality in education as measured by education Gini is negatively associated with average years schooling, implying … that higher education attainments are more likely to achieve equality in education. Moreover, a clear pattern on an … education Kuznets curve exists if standard deviation of schooling is used. Furthermore, gender gaps are related to education …
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Development literature in the past decade has become more people centric with human development being projected as one of the 'ends' of development planning. The present paper tries to explore the trends, patterns and regional dimension of human development (HD) in India through construction of...
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