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the interactions between human capital, productivity and health are explored. Most of the world's growth in population … raising living standards, improving health standards, and altering time allocation decisions. In most currently poor and …
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The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to “health production functions.” The …
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
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rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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