[PDF] Top 20 Health and the economy: three essays

... the health e¤ects of changes in the pension system in ...had health bene…ts from the additional income which was shared by ...Self-Assessed Health of East Germans after the reuni…cation of ...small ... See full document

... institutions economy and institutions of health, then on certain days such as the day of celebration of Eid community members transmigration village Tirtamartani also obtain additional services in the form ... See full document

... maternal health status, and low return on embodied capital, where women prefer somatic expressions of wealth and status (larger family sizes) rather than material expressions of wealth (Mcallister, Gurven et ... See full document

... of health among women, and this effect varies over ...poorer health than being married and the health differences between the married and widowed are wider at earlier life stages, then converge at ... See full document

... fare system was putting into question core pillars of the Modell Deutschland. This weakened the reform-decelerating powers of the corporatist veto cluster. However, the loss of a majority in the Bundesrat hindered the ... See full document

... opportunities to male siblings (Butcher and Case 1994). In contrast to the older generation, the younger generation spent their adolescence under the influence of rapid economic growth and educational expansion and thus ... See full document

... Over the past several decades there has been an increased prevalence of both adult and childhood obesity in American society. This has received significant attention from researchers and governmental agencies, as there ... See full document

... We are therefore left with two conflicting arguments. On the one hand, defined contribution plans have been proposed as a cheaper alternative to defined benefit plans. On the other hand, the relative risk model implies ... See full document

... While total subsidy disbursement fits a consistent geographic pattern, disbursement per capita for the 2005-2007 Crop Disaster Program, shown in figure 4.3 suggests that individual farme[r] ... See full document

... The current analysis cannot provide direct evidence on taxation by rebel groups, which is the key mechanism within my framework that explains the differential im- pact of rainfall shocks in mining regions. The Maoists ... See full document

... contains three chapters covering relationships between mortality, health, ...self-rated health is a significant predictor of mortality in rural Malawi, a context that differs greatly from those in ... See full document

... Given the equilibrium of product market competition and cooperative advertising is the equilibrium type of investment, in the first stage of the game the government of country i chooses [r] ... See full document

... Chapter 2 The Price Impact of an Embargo: The 1973 Soybean Em- bargo in the United States.. 2.2 Background and Methodology.[r] ... See full document

... Finally, the degree of underfunding of pension obligations is significant and potentially important in determining the growth of pensions for public sector workers. In particular, each year an employee works, he accrues ... See full document

... do not exactly hold in every time period; and (ii) these deviations are zero on average. We assume that the economic agents in the model (both firms and households) take into account exogenous stochastic processes of ... See full document

... In this paper, we investigate whether multi segmentation 16 affects the probability of meeting analysts’ forecasts, and whether the ‘diversification’ discount that multi segment firms seem to suffer from is ... See full document

... With three voting members, the only way a project was approved in a municipal OCAD before Septem- ber 2013 was with the votes of both the mayor and the central ... See full document

... parties, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Insti- tucional, PRI) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecolo- gista de México, PVEM), formed a partial coalition, nominating ... See full document

... We start the analysis by studying the set of equilibria in economies with reversibility. We show that there is a continuum of equilibria, each characterized by a different stable steady state. The set of equilibrium ... See full document

... Panel A in Table 1.8 shows results from estimating equation 1.4 using total expenditure per capita as dependent variable. I introduce a one-year lag in royalties to account for the delay in expenditure. Separate ... See full document