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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 We examined urban-rural differences in educational inequalities in mortality in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Finland in the context of macroeconomic changes.
M. Leinsalu +5 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Leslie matrix matching approach in labor market studies
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis article aims to identify the possibilities of combining existing approaches in ecology with the challenges of the labor market in the current era of digitalization and to identify what qualitative changes the labor market may undergo under the ...
Shogher Poghosyan +4 more
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The spatial diffusion of fertility decline in Egypt (1950–2006)
Genus, 2021 While the Egyptian fertility transition has been widely addressed in the literature, few researches have studied the spatial dimension of fertility.
Yoann Doignon +2 more
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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A Regular Demand System with Commodity-Specific Demographic Effects [PDF]
Regular consumer demand systems almost invariably employ specifications that involve common functional forms in all equations. When applications involve crosssectional data it is often the case that demographic effects are important.
Blacklow, Paul +3 more
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Essays on Demographic Economics
, 2017 This thesis consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, I explore the effects of educational assortative matching on household income inequality. Income differences across households are larger the more similar are the earnings potentials of breadwinners within the household.
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Economic ageing and demographic change [PDF]
Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2007 This paper presents a generalised model of overlapping generations with economic ageing of households. Economic age is defined as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle.
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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LAND ECONOMICS AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC CONNECTION [PDF]
Land Economics/Use,
Raup, Philip M.
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