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from the Demographic and Health Surveys, a new and comprehensive source of anthropometric data for Africa.What was the … to a nutritional or health crisis. Consequently, SSA represents an important exception to the secular trend usually found … reflect an unequal allocation of nutritional and health inputs. The socially induced variance is to be added to the biological …
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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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This study examined whether the demand for more educated science and engineering workers outweighed longstanding practices of discrimination in hiring in high technology industries and science and engineering occupations. The study focused on the effects of education on the distribution of...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the extent to which educational attainment, school quality and numericcompetency influence individuals’ employment and earnings prospects in the South African labourmarket using data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS). While NIDSis one...
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These are lecture notes for the article "Technological Progress and Economic Transformation," in the Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005, v. 1B, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf. Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland, pp. 1225-1273.
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Este documento analiza cómo impacta en el desempeño escolar la reubicación de niños en servicios de cuidado tutelar, tras investigaciones familiares por maltrato infantil. Para estimar el efecto causal de la reubicación, se construye una variable instrumental. Dicha variable es la...
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Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2126
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the four factors. Given that infant mortality reflects a level of health care, it could be assumed that life expectancy in … South Korea would be much mediated by health care. …
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