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Peasant Farmers and Pandemics: The Role of Seasonality and Labour-Leisure Trade-Off Decisions

Feuerbacher, Arndt; McDonald, Scott; Thierfelder, Karen - 2020

Outbreaks of infectious diseases in developing countries deplete the primary asset of the poor – their labour – through premature deaths and increased morbidity. This study examines how peasant households may respond to the global and local effects of pandemics in economies with...

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Health Shocks, Human Capital, and Labor Market Outcomes

Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018

Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked through complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....

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Strategies to prioritize prevention in the Greek primary healthcare system

Pantelidis, Pantelis; Vozikis, Athanassios; Meggouli, Eirini - 2019

The present study presents financial incentives for General Practitioners(GPs) to engage in specific preventive care services and describes new roles for nurses to provide recommendations regarding brief nutrition counseling. To calculate the total number of personnel required to provide...

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How May Working Hours and Occupations Affect Arthritis? Results from a Nationally Representative Dataset

Mercan, Murat A. - 2016

Objective: Even though many studies have focused on the relationship between osteoarthritis and occupation, few studies have examined the relationship between arthritis and working hours; this paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature. Methods: We used a Cox regression method for the sample...

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Peasant Households and Pandemic Viral Diseases

Feuerbacher, Arndt; McDonald, Scott; Thierfelder, Karen - 2020

Outbreaks of infectious diseases are particularly devastating for developing countries and the poor: they deplete, through premature death and morbidity the primary asset of the poor – their labour – in economies with the least developed health care systems. This study examines how peasant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015212357

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008

amounts of multitasking but beyond an optimum,multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates andrevenue … generation; and (d) asynchronous information seeking such asemail and database use promotes multitasking while … consistent with simpleproduction models of queuing and multitasking and these methods can bereplicated in other settings …

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Essays on the application of multitasking in marketing channels.

Banerjee, Ranjan - 2010

tasks poses a significant challenge because efforts on individual tasks are often not directly observable. Multi-tasking (or …

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Defining the Key Predictors of Losses in Healthy Years of Life: A Cross-Country Investigation

Kyselova, Vladyslava; Popovych, Tetiana; Buryhina, Khrystyna - 2024

This study identifies and analyzes the key environmental factors contributing to the loss of healthy years of life, as quantified by Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), across various regions worldwide. Using data from The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) we...

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Does Carbon Emission Matter for Health Care Expenditure? Evidence from SAARC region using Panel Cointegration

Azad, Abul Kalam; Abdullah, S M; Fariha, Tasnim Rahman - 2017

This study investigates the impact of increased carbon emissions on per capita health expenditure exploiting the panel data with Engle – Granger based cointegration test, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) method. Data for the South Asian...

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Air Pollution's Grip: Drug Cost and Its Heterogeneity in China

Ju, Heng; Tang, Yao; Zhang, Meilan - 2024

We quantify the economic costs of air pollution associated with drug expenditures. First, following a 1% increase in the annual average of PM2.5, the combined expenditures on respiratory, cardiovascular, and antitumor drugs are predicted to rise by an amount equivalent to 1.81% of the annual per...

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