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School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
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Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Prices in the Crises
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Year: 2023 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery
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Equity in educational expenditures: can government subsidies help?
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. World Bank

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U.S. And Them : The Geography of Academic Research
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, we report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population and wealth, yielding a strong correlation between per-capita research output and per-capita GDP. Regressions controlling for data quality, governance and the use of English give an estimated research-wealth elasticity of 0.32; surprisingly, the U.S. is not an outlier. Second, papers written about the U.S. are 2.5 percentage-points more likely to be published in the top five economics journals after accounting for authors' institutional affiliations and the field of study. This is a large effect because only 1.5% of all papers written about countries other than the U.S. are published in first-tier journals. No similar premium for research on the U.S. is detected in second-tier general interest journals, where papers from the UK and Europe command a substantial premium instead.

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United States --- History.


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Mental Health Patterns And Consequences. : Results From Survey Data In Five Developing Countries
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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The social and economic consequences of poor mental health in the developing world are presumed to be significant, yet are largely under-researched. The authors argue that mental health modules can be meaningfully added to multi-purpose household surveys in developing countries, and used to investigate this relationship. Data from nationally representative surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar patterns of association between mental health and socioeconomic characteristics across countries. Individuals who are older, female, widowed, and report poor physical health are more likely to report worse mental health outcomes. Individuals living with others with poor mental health are also significantly more likely to report worse mental health themselves. In contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio-economic status. The results instead suggest that economic and multi-dimensional shocks such as illness or crisis can have a greater impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy. The authors also find significant associations between poor mental health and lowered labor force participation (especially for women) and higher frequency visits to health centers, suggesting that poor mental health can have significant economic consequences for households and the health system. Finally, the paper discusses how measures of mental health are distinct from general subjective welfare measures such as happiness and indicate useful directions of future research.


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U.S. And Them : The Geography of Academic Research
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, we report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population and wealth, yielding a strong correlation between per-capita research output and per-capita GDP. Regressions controlling for data quality, governance and the use of English give an estimated research-wealth elasticity of 0.32; surprisingly, the U.S. is not an outlier. Second, papers written about the U.S. are 2.5 percentage-points more likely to be published in the top five economics journals after accounting for authors' institutional affiliations and the field of study. This is a large effect because only 1.5% of all papers written about countries other than the U.S. are published in first-tier journals. No similar premium for research on the U.S. is detected in second-tier general interest journals, where papers from the UK and Europe command a substantial premium instead.

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United States --- History.


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Strained mercy: the quality of medical care in Delhi
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. World Bank

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Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item-response to measure doctor quality
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. World Bank

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Money for nothing: the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. World Bank

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