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Background Unintended pregnancies are a global public health concern that could be prevented with appropriate access to contraceptive methods. Evidence from research has indicated that avoidance of closely space birth/pregnancy within the first year of ...
Obinna Princewill Anyatonwu +1 more
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Oaxaca – Blinder Model In Economic Analysis
Oaxaca–Blinder model is popularly used in the world to study differences (gap) in average values of two groups. For instance, this technique is often applied to analyse the wage gap by gender, race, economic sector, etc.
Nguyễn Minh Hà +2 more
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Inequality in Public Health Spending and Access to Healthcare Services in Zimbabwe: A Cross-Sectional Study. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Access to healthcare services is a public health challenge worldwide. Although governments continue to channelscarce resources to enhance service provision, the World Health Organization estimates that about half the world's population lacks essential access.
Chari A, von Fintel D, Burger R.
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xtoaxaca - Extending the Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Approach to Panel Data
The Kitagawa-Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca program for cross-sectional analyses.
Kröger, Hannes, Hartmann, Jörg
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Inequalities in outcomes often result from processes that unfold over individuals’ prior life courses. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyse such inequalities between groups in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose to combine the strengths of Sequence Analysis to study the multidimensional complexity of life courses with the ...
Rowold, C, Struffolino, E, Fasang, AE
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China’s aging population poses a significant challenge, drawing attention to regional disparities in pension benefits for urban and rural residents.
Songbiao Zhang, Xining Wang, Huilin Wang
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ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb +2 more
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Background Childhood obesity has become a significant public health issue worldwide. Socioeconomic status is among its key determinants. This study examined the socioeconomic inequality in different phenotypes of childhood obesity at the national level ...
Zohreh Mahmoodi +7 more
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ABSTRACT The gender gap in risk preferences in rural farm households, with female farmers commonly viewed as more risk‐averse than their male counterparts, may have profound implications for addressing the gendered impacts of climate change. Understanding these gender differences and their drivers is essential for designing policies that enhance ...
Abebe Hailemariam +2 more
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The Gender Gap in Early-Career Wages of Universities’ and Vocational Education Institutes’ Graduates
Data from the Federal Statistical Sample Survey of Employment of Vocational Education and Higher Education Graduates is used to measure the gender wage gap and analyze the factors explaining gender inequality.
Margarita Kiryushina, Victor Rudakov
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