Earnings and the Elusive Dividends of Health

This paper looks at the relationship between health and income. After discussing the general context of health improvements in Latin America during the last few decades, the study elaborates on the interrelationships between the physical and social determinants of health, the complexities that arise in attributing earnings differentials to variations in health status, and the difficulties of accurately measuring health status. The paper presents a methodology for estimating the impact of health on earnings that addresses problems of measurement error and endogeneity, then summarizes the main findings of related studies undertaken as part of a larger project. These studies show that health status does have a significant, although modest, impact on earnings in four Latin American countries. Furthermore, environmental conditions (such as housing and sanitation) appear to have significant impacts on health status, compared to health services and public health facilities, which show little influence. The universally strong relationship between education and earnings is only modestly reduced by the inclusion of health status despite a general expectation that estimated returns to education were, in part, capturing the frequently unmeasured effects of health. By analyzing these relationships together-health determinants and the impact of health on earnings-we can assess the magnitude and importance of the `human capital`component of health status, validate and compare a range of health indicators, and identify promising areas for public policy to invest in health improvements.

Alistair Heys, The Anatomy of Bloom: Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety.

This 218-page book with additional pages of 437 notes and 3 pages of index (author and title) appears to have required a great deal of research or wealth of background knowledge, as it refers to an unusual number of authors and works on almost every page. If a reader starts to understand the book from the title, s/he expects an analysis, almost medical in tone (an ‘anatomy’) of the famous literary critic, perhaps with regard to his theory about literary influence; since Bloom did use the word..

Successful school-community relations: an account of civic cooperation in Sanford-Springvale

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Pathos and its Paradox : The Vision of J. M. Synge

For J. M. Synge what Francis Bickley calls the hard light of reality and the passion of imagination are combined in the character of the Irish peasant. As Bickley again observes, in this people, as he saw it--and he had no sentimentality to mar his vision--the god and the beast were mixed in just proportions; corresponding to that juxtaposition of exaltation and brutality which figures in his theory of poetry. It is the poetic richness of Synge\u27s language, too, that juxtaposes the potential of language and the potential of life. It is a rhythmic language that pulsates with the fullness of physical nature, and yet it too retains the somberness to be acknowledged upon witnessing transient life. H. S. Canby suggests that the poetic style of Synge was a needed stimulus in an ailing English drama. Indeed, here is a new rhythm for English prose, as beautiful perhaps as the rhythms of the seventeenth century. Its flexible beauty gives just that impression of reality elevated into art which blank verse permitted to the Elizabethans. The critic L. A. G. Strong writes that The Playboy of the Western World has a laughter and violence and overwhelming love of life which no other dramatist has recaptured since the Elizabethans…” As if describing Synge himself, Strong characterizes the Playboy as the poet, the man of imagination. The world was too much with him. He got drunk on the smell of a pint. It is a wild and passionate love of life that provides Synge\u27s characters with their primary motivations. C. A. Bennett reminds the reader that the presence of something incalculable warns us that we are among a people where the forces of life have not been subdued. In a faithful glance at the elemental fabric of Synge\u27s character and technique, Bennett maintains that if his plays live it will be because they are the work of a man who sought his materials in the primitive and the simple and the strong, in laughter and sorrow, passion and joy. And these are the things that endure.” In the drama of Synge exists an exhilaration proclaiming the vastness of life\u27s potential, a potential not dimmed by the certainty of death and decay. Whatever other quality may be dominant at any moment in Synge there is always along with it, exaltation

Creditors’ Rights Involved in the Production and Sale of Natural Gas

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