".... Propose an alternative framework, which we term "community governance." We begin with some examples, and present a simple model and some experimental evidence demonstrating the plausibility of ...
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".... We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very differen...
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Paper prepared for a conference on "Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health" sponsored by The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences an...
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Inequalities in health are undesirable to the extent that they are unfair, or unjust. Distinguishing between health inequalities and health inequities can be contentious. Our view is that inequalities...
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"...This paper is about measuring social well-being and evaluating policy. Part I is concerned with the links between the two, while Parts II and III, respectively, are devoted to the development of ...
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"...Socioeconomic differences in coronary heart disease already exist in people in there 30's... The relative contribution of socioeconomic differences in risk factors in adulthood versus earlier life...
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This paper analyzes Chilean data in search of answers to questions about the effects on health care costs of population aging and of catastrophic events. Its main purpose is to ground current discussi...
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This publication is the first in a series of Innocent Report Cards, designed to monitor the performance of the industrialized nations in meeting the needs of their children. Each Report Card will pres...
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This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the factors underlying this rapid growth: good economic policies, good luck in the external sector, and the countr...
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The aim in this paper is to distinguish between socioeconomic aspects of development that are likely to be protective and those that are likely to increase vulnerability (the capacity for loss resulti...
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