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Population ageing, intergenerational transfers and demographic dividend in Ecuador
(2015)
This paper analyses economic flows over the lifecycle in Ecuador, a middle-income country that
is anticipating rapid population ageing. Using the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) framework, the
paper develops estimates ...
Do biological measures mediate the relationship between education and health: A comparative study
(Social Science & Medicine 72 (2011) 307-315, 2011)
Despite a myriad of studies examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health
outcomes, few have assessed the extent to which biological markers of chronic disease account for social
disparities in health. ...
Fertility change in Costa Rica 1960-84: analysis of retrospective lifetime reproductive histories
(1989-10)
Lifetime reproductive histories of a 1984-85 nationally representative
sample of 870 women aged 25-59 years provided data to describe
the evolution of fertility, contraception, breast-feeding, and natural
fecundability ...
Descriptive epidemiology of cancer of the breast and uterine cervix in Costa Rica
(1987)
Cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in Costa Rica, with malignant tumors of the stomach, uterus, lung, and breast (in that order) causing the most deaths. In terms of incidence, cancers of the uterine ...
Differential DNA methylation and lymphocyte proportions in a Costa Rican high longevity region
(2017)
Background: The Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica has one of the highest old-age life expectancies in the world, but the underlying biological mechanisms of this longevity are not well understood. As DNA methylation is ...