Browsing by Subject "education"
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Education Externalities on Longevity
(2013)We argue that education exerts positive external effects on health, beyond the standard internal effects documented in the literature. We implement an innovative approach to control for endogeneity and omitted variables ...
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Failure to launch? The role of land inequality in transition delays
(2013)This paper provides empirical support for one theory of transition delays: initial land inequality. Using a new historical dataset for land inequality (Frankema, 2009) we employ duration analysis to investigate whether ...
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Guest editorial introduction to the special issue on citizen centered e-health systems in a global healthcare environment: Selected papers from ITAB 2009
(2011)The January 2011 Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine includes selected papers from Information Technology in Biomedicine (ITAB 2009), held in the month of October in Cyprus. The ...
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A virtual emergency telemedicine serious game in medical training: A quantitative, professional feedback-informed evaluation study
(2015)Background: Serious games involving virtual patients in medical education can provide a controlled setting within which players can learn in an engaging way, while avoiding the risks associated with real patients. Moreover, ...