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Learning to Address Health Inequality in the United States with a Bayesian Decision Network

open access: yes, 2018
Life-expectancy is a complex outcome driven by genetic, socio-demographic, environmental and geographic factors. Increasing socio-economic and health disparities in the United States are propagating the longevity-gap, making it a cause for concern ...
Chugh, Samarth   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A CRITICAL APPROACH TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC POLICY [PDF]

open access: yes
This study presents some critical opinions regarding the definition of the demographic policy, pointing out the differencies between the two concept – population policies and demographic policy -, the history and the evolution of the demographic policy ...
Carmen Radu
core  

Patient Satisfaction With Medication Pricing in Community Pharmacy Settings: A Cross‐Sectional Study of Individuals With Comorbidities

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
The majority of patients in Malaysia purchase medications at community pharmacies for simple medical conditions. One‐fourth of them are not satisfied with the pricing practices at these pharmacies. The majority rely on medical insurance to purchase routine medications.
Amelia Ravindran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socio‐economic indicators of demographic disadvantage in the Altai Krai

open access: yesВекторы благополучия: экономика и социум
The urgency of the problem of demographic disadvantage is due to the need to minimize and overcome the accelerated depopulation of the Russian population, which is the main threat to the national security of the country.
M.I. Cherepanova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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