Education, Gender, and State-Level Gradients in the Health of Older Indians: Evidence from Biomarker Data
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- Jinkook Lee & Mark E. McGovern & David E. Bloom & P. Arokiasamy & Arun Risbud & Jennifer O’Brien & Varsha Kale & Perry Hu, 2016. "Education, Gender, and State-Level Gradients in the Health of Older Indians: Evidence from Biomarker Data," PGDA Working Papers 12115, Program on the Global Demography of Aging.
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JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2015-02-05 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-EDU-2015-02-05 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2015-02-05 (Health Economics)
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