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Front matter, The Effect of Education on Efficiency in Consumption
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The article was published on 1972-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Front (military) & Consumption (economics).read more
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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
TL;DR: From Neurons to Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how children learn to learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior, and examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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The Human Capital Model
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health which was originally developed in 1972 is discussed, and theoretical extensions of the model are reviewed, as well as empirical research that tests the predictions and studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed.
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Poverty and the Distribution of Material Hardship
TL;DR: The authors found that a family's official income-to-needs ratio explained 24 percent of the variance in the amount of material hardship it reported, while adjustment for family size, age, health, noncash benefits, home ownership, and access to credit explained another 15 percent.
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Schooling and Economic Well-Being: The Role of Nonmarket Effects.
Robert Haveman,Barbara Wolfe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a catalog of nonmarketed effects, many of which have been recently studied by economists, and then propose a procedure for estimating a willingness-to-pay value for these effects.