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International Journal of Health Services, Volume 42 Number 3 / 2012

Social Class, Politics, and the Spirit Level: Why Income Inequality Remains Unexplained and Unsolved Carles Muntaner, Nanky Rai, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung Neoliberalism is Bad for Our Health Gavin Mooney Wealth Inequality and Health: A Political Economy Perspective Nadine R. Nowatzki The Politics of Avoidable Blindness in Latin America—Surgery, Solidarity, and Solutions: The Case of [...]

Population Studies, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2012

Original Articles Ø    A flexible two-dimensional mortality model for use in indirect estimation John Wilmoth, Sarah Zureick, Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Mie Inoue & Cheryl Sawyer Ø    How slowing senescence translates into longer life expectancy Joshua R. Goldstein & Thomas Cassidy Ø    A modified Lee–Carter model for analysing short-base-period data Bojuan Barbara Zhao Ø    American political affiliation, [...]

Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 60, No. 2, January 2012

Table of Contents ®       The Long-Run Impacts of Adult Deaths on Older Household Members in Tanzania Achyuta R. Adhvaryu, Kathleen Beegle ®       Sharing the Burden of Parental Death: Intrafamily Effects of HIV/AIDS Orphans on Fertility and Child Quality Olumide Taiwo ®       US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration Manuela Angelucci ®       [...]

Health and the Political Agency of Women

By Sonia Bhalotra and Irma Clots-Figueras CMPO Working Paper No. 11/280 We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition [...]

The Effectiveness of Health Screening

Franz Hackl Martin Halla Michael Hummer and Gerald J. Pruckner Discussion Paper No. 6310 January 2012 Using a matched insurant-general practitioner panel data set, we estimated the effect of a general health-screening program on individuals’ health status and health care cost. To account for selection into treatment, we used  regional variations in the intensity of [...]

The Correlation between Human Capital and Morality andits Effect on Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence

by David J. Balan and Stephen Knack WPS 5720, June 2011 This paper incorporates morality—defined as lower utility from consuming goods obtained through appropriative rather than productive activities—into a simple static general equilibrium model in which agents choose whether to be producers or appropriators. The authors analyze the relationship between the correlation between morality and [...]

Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption

Piero Cipollone  & Alfonso Rosolia World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5680 This paper examines the relationship between educationand mortality in a young population of Italian males.In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specificsouthern towns were unexpectedly exempted fromcompulsory military service after a major quake hit theregion. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from the leastdamaged [...]

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