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econ.GN2026
Long-Term Health and Human Capital Effects of Universal Health Care and Mass Literacy: Evidence from Cuba
Giovanni Mellace, Rok Spruk
We estimate long-run effects of Cuba's 1961 National Health Service and contemporaneous National Literacy Campaign using synthetic-control methods on newly assembled series for 21…
econ.GN2025
Gender Differences in Healthcare Utilisation: Causal Evidence from Unexpected Adverse Health Shocks
Nadja van 't Hoff, Giovanni Mellace, Seetha Menon
Women live longer than men yet report worse health. One common reading of this male-female health-survival paradox is that women also engage more with healthcare. We challenge that…