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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Health shocks"”.
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The effect of health on the labour force outcome among working age individuals in the UK
… three empirical chapters on the effect of health on some key labour-force outcomes of working age individuals in the UK. In the first paper chapter two, the effect of health shocks on exit from employment among working age individuals using data from British Household Panel Survey was …
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Essays in labour and family economics
Are the less healthy relatively less employed because they are unable to work? Or vice versa? In the first part of the thesis, I evaluate the impact of health shocks on individual labour market transitions in 27 EU countries and I explain these results through the heterogeneity in social security …
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Essays on the Economics of Environmental and Health Risk
… risk, including to their property, finances, and health. In this thesis, I study a variety of strategies for mitigating those risks, in the context of health shocks and natural disasters. In the health context, risk of disease onset is mitigated in some cases with screening programs, with …
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Economic Analysis Of Preventive Care Utilization Among Older Adults
… two studies that focus on the effects of public health policy and health shocks on the initiation of use of preventive services among older adults.</p> <p>In January 2005, Medicare began covering a one-time initial preventive physical examination (IPPE), also called a "Welcome to Medicare" visit, …
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Suffering and surviving beyond home borders: experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women in accessing health care services in Giyani, South Africa
… migrant women's experiences in accessing public health services in South Africa. It unpacks migrant women's vulnerability and subsequent coping strategies they improvise against the shocks and stresses they face. Data in this study was collected over two and a half months using qualitative …
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How and why do states provide for children? Comparing social grants for families with children in Southern Africa
… primarily cash transfers, feeding programmes, health and education fee waivers) are similar in providing some form of social grants, directly and/or indirectly to children or families with children. But there are significant variations between the CWRs. The CWRs primarily vary across two …
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Three Essays in Health Insurance
… to insurance transitioning behavior of public health insurance enrollees?”, “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Coverage Among Those Lacking Housing Basics, 2010-19” and “Health Insurance Coverage Changes under Affordable Care Act among High Housing Cost Households, 2010-19”. My first chapter …
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Armed conflict, poverty and education in Naxal-affected areas of India: Gendered impacts and intersecting pathways
… conflict dynamics alongside a range of sequenced shocks and stressors in conflict-affected contexts, such as crime, alcoholism and other health shocks, exploitative lending practices, and natural hazards. These are observed to impoverish or maintain poverty in conflict-affected areas, with …
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Rural households and shocks: Asset transfer, migration and civil conflict
… long-term implications of positive and negative shocks on rural poor's economic wellbeing. In the first paper, based on the joint work with Hope Michelson, Alex Winter-Nelson and Peter Goldsmith, I estimate the impact of an asset transfer program on household resilience, where resilience is …
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Essays in Public Economics and Health Economics
… Chapter 3 turns to a fundamental question in health economics: how do health states change over the life-cycle, and how does the risk of adverse health-shocks change over the life-cycle? Most economic models of individuals’ behaviour over the life-cycle, to the extent to which they incorporate …
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Building resilience and ensuring food security in Ethiopia amid multiple shocks
… Ethiopia under overlapping climatic, economic, health, and political shocks. Using nationally representative panel data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESPS/LSMS–ISA) for 2018/19 and 2021/22, the study analyzes how resilience is constructed, how it relates to food security outcomes, and …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Health in Developing Countries
… consists of three chapters that address health issues in developing countries. The first two chapters study Ghana's social health insurance program, the National Health Insurance Scheme. Many developing countries have recently instituted social health insurance schemes (SHIs) to ease …